WHAT IS LIFE?

Life : it is a small word with deep meaning. But, it is the word which makes me confused all the time. My curiosity to know about life has been started when I was in third grade, it was the first time I thought about life when my teacher explained the lesson “Living things and Non- living things”. After her explanation, I understood that, life is something that differentiates living things from non- living things with some characteristics like movement, growth, response , respiration and reproduction. But, on the next day, when I was watching an interview, a musician said that ”music is life”, I was perplexed by listening to it as I heard a different meaning of life on the before day.

Days passed, but my appetite for knowledge and inquisitiveness to learn about life grew along with me. When I was in seventh grade, I was bewildered as I heard a new meaning of life while my teacher started explaining about “Life cycle”. She said that life is a period between birth and death. It is the aspect of existence that processes, acts ,evaluates and evolves through growth. When I was lost in thought, bell rang. In the interval ,I read a book, in which it is printed as “Life is an art and you are the artist”. I was confused again, but I decided to explore more about this magical word.

Once, when we were traveling ,I saw an advertisement of car on a big hoarding, it was captioned as “Life is a journey”. I was puzzled, I asked my father about it. He said ,” life is a journey, the way which you travel may be a plain road or a pebble- strewn road, like the success and failure , you are the driver, so it’s you who have to choose the correct path. The vehicle which helps you to reach the destination is your hard work , the fuel which helps the vehicle to run is your confidence and the wheels are the relationships, emotions, studies, skills, passion which gives you support to complete the journey called life”. I was astonished by the profound meaning behind the small sentence.

From that day forward, I heard numerous definitions and meanings of life. Once, I went to my mother when she was sowing seeds. I asked her what she was sowing in order to know the type of the seed. But surprisingly she said that she was sowing life. I asked her to elaborate it. Then she said that ”Life is hope” and she was doing it with a hope that it will be helpful for future generations. She has different ideology about life. In the same way , the word “life” evokes different images in people’s minds. That is the reason we hear many definitions for life like; life is fun, life is a sequence of success and failure, life is a book , life is an ocean, life is an exam, life is a gift , life is a teacher, life is struggle, life is dream, life is money etc.

When I put my pen on the paper to write about life, I felt it like an unsolved mystery, surprisingly! I gave another definition to it. When these all thoughts about life flustered my mind, it’s like an indescribable picture. I was engrossed for a couple of minutes and came to a conclusion that,” Life is the way you desire to live”. Everyone describes life in their own perspective based on their interests or state of life or subject, so it is the way that one fascinates to live. The meaning of life is to give life a meaning with our own thoughts. We live only once ,so, enjoy every moment in the way you wish to and do small things in a great way to contribute something to the world which will remain even after you leave it. Disseminate the knowledge, optimism , prosperity, happiness, tranquillity to the people around you, instinctively the world will enhance with the glow of positivity and generosity. Because big changes start with small steps. So, let us take the first step towards change.

                   “Live life to the fullest”