LIFE - An Attempt to Live

Everyone,
Every single human being
On this living planet
Would have sometimes,
In joy;
But Mostly in pain,
In hope,
But mostly in despair
Wondered about this question
WHAT IS LIFE ??


But do we have an answer ??

The oxford says life is:
"the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death"

Don't worry if you had to read it twice to understand the meaning described. It's OK !! (I can say OK, with my personal experience :-) 

Is life actually so difficult to understand; that we need a second chance to understand her ?
Is she actually that complicated ?
Or is it that we like making her complicated because we are afraid to have a smooth, normal, carefree life ? 
Afraid to have a life that we can sit back and enjoy ? 
Afraid seeing the knotty life of our neighbors, which forces us to think "Mine is definitely missing SOMETHING.."  And Bingo.... we go about messing up our lives.

We never have the answer for this "SOMETHING" but we still run behind it, ignorant of the "SOMETHINGS" that we have. I am reminded of a couplet by Sri Sant Kabir which probably explains this:

कस्तूरी कंडल बसे, मृग ढूँढत बन माहि  ।

ज्यो घट घट  राम है, दुनिया देखे नाही  


(A deer has the fragrance in itself but being unaware of the truth, runs throughout the forest in search of this source. Similarly God is everywhere but the world does not see it, and searches for him)

Well, probably our lives is no less ignorant than the deer's. We keep rushing through our lives in search of that bliss, and when it comes in our lives, our search is headed else where. Why is the human mind so flickering? Every moment, every day, every month, every year; our source, our definition of happiness changes. Perhaps what was once a source of immense pleasure becomes a waste of time as the years pass by.

Recall - 
What did you enjoy the most as a kid ?
Are you still awestruck at the beauty of a starlit night, or haven't had the time to gaze at its beauty in years ?
Had you had the time to run behind a butterfly, or are caught running behind the deadlines ?
When was it that you called up your childhood friend, or are now just busy talking to the clients ?
As a child you enjoyed playing with the neighbors kid; Do you know who your neighbors are now ?

You would say Life has changed ; Priorities have changed ; Where is the time ; I am not a kid anymore ; What will the others say.... And the list of excuses goes on and on and on....

These are all nice answers to fool yourself. You know the truth, I know the truth.
We all know the truth somewhere deep down but afraid to give the truth a face.
Just go out enjoy the life you have been blessed with. How much ever we want to believe that there is another life waiting for us after death, we can not be sure, right ? Then why just let go off the one we have in hands? Why throw away our happiness ? 

This can't be called living, this is just not dying !

It was in your hands, it is in your hands.

Just Be Happy !! Get your Life !! Make an attempt to live !!
(Believe it - Its not that difficult as we make it to be).




{I can write all this, because I have fooled myself with all the above answers, I am no different. And one fine night when slumber - who usually brings peace to a fatigued mind, was not a good friend to me, the thought occurred -- What is Life....And the pen took over....}


Comments

  1. Excellent article....Answers the most common question lingering in everybody's min in the most beautiful way!!!!!

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  2. aur kaun kaun se talent chhipe hue h?

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    1. pata nai :-P
      waise ye talent to baakiyon ko pehle hi dikh gaya tha.... tum kya so rahe the ??

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  3. I like it complicated, I like it intangible. Don't care to find the answer, heck, don't know/like the question itself. What is all this fuss about life, meaning, existence..blah blah...

    As per my experience, You don't be happy trying to be one, you just are or aren't. Also, what is perpetual happiness or sadness? I think everyone is happy or sad or indifferent at one or other point in life.

    The goal of attaining a level of detachment is what i think better solution. However, a very difficult one to achieve.

    The goal to be happy always is a lofty and misguided one. The idea is simplistic and the effort to explain this is futile.

    However, a well written article.

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