Life:
The Elusive Concept.
Is life about living
alone?
Or about birth, growth,
copulation, and death
afterward?
Is life about making name,
goal pursuit, live one’s
tall
dream, and
then fade away?
Life! Life!! Life!!!
Tell the world-who you
are, and
what aptly defines you,
success, accomplishment,
failure, trouble, crisis,
happiness,
joy, peace, cry, pain,
anguish, and
a journey back to grave?
Please, tell, what
fittingly
describes your personality:
love, hate, peace,
accommodation;
with individual make up
traits-
man is yet to come to a
universally acceptable
definition.
Even the big five personality
models: openness,
conscientiousness,
extraversion,
agreeableness, and
neuroticism-OCEAN or CANOE
acronyms-
barely explains what life is.
Life-you have become
many things to different
people;
still, I ask with tenacity
of
purpose,
Life-who are you?
Where did you come from?
When did you come into
existence?
Why thou come into being?
How did you come into
being?
Life is more of a mirage or
shadow that appears to be
real or factual,
but turns a play book of a
fairy tale of a pie in the
sky.
Consider the blank tablet-
Mind-at birth,
which gradually turns to
a complex cuneiform-
as soon as life’s journey
begins.
Life-a journey to unknown
destination-
upon individual’s arrival;
imagine the void at birth
that turns a home-filled
experience several years after,
which may neither guarantee
success to discreet and wise
nor failure to the
foolish.
Life- a metaphorical door-
that opens back and forth;
a lesson on ups-and-downs-
which begins at birth,
but ends in death.
Do you see-life-
a long stretch of road
leading to a multiple
destinations for
different passers-by?
A lesson on-individuality-
no two journeys-even if
made-
on same race lane is same.
Is life not a symbolic
home of
different-size-and-shaped-rooms
occupied by different
people?
A lesson that life
presents
different challenges and
opportunities;
challenge by accident,
a few occurrence happen
naturally or by design,
another through opportunity
by default.
Life-like a ship at sea-
tossed by strong winds-
but determined to anchor
at shore;
does it not remind you-
most life is lived in
turbulent
sea?
Just as individual weather
the-storm-of-life with
determined spirit to
anchor.
Don’t you marvel at the
cyclical nature of life-
as man undergo physical
growth
and spiritual
re-awakening?
Just as earth revolves
around it axis
resulting in rebirth,
regeneration,
and growth?
Life is more of metamorphosis-
many-sided developmental changes-
consecutive or successive;
changes from things anticipated,
changes from accidents,
changes from cycles of
event,
changes from cataclysmic
events;
change from a failure,
change from a success.
Life-so difficult to define,
not easily discerned,
as it continues to
intrigue man;
but it is certain,
when it begins at birth,
it terminates in death.
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