What is life?

Several people have tried to define life in the best way possible, but clearly we cannot describe life in a statement let alone in one word. They say life is a marathon and so you have to endure, but for how long? At least an athlete knows that it is only 2hours at worst 2hours 30minutes and it will be over.

Many Christians tend to think that life is about endurance-with all the wickedness and evil all over and have resigned to fate. They even go as far as saying, “It is the will of God.” Who really knows the will of God? Is it the Priests? Forgive my language but who made them priests in the first place, God? Who can really claim to know the heart beat of the creator?

Besides the athlete endures because he is expecting a gold or silver, what about you? How do you endure when you don’t know for how long, needless to say for what; but if that’s how it’s supposed to be then damn humanity!

Why should you celebrate your day of birth when all it can remind you is the day you begun this miserable journey? Why should your men of old present gifts at your birth or was it a mockery? What star directed them to your place of birth or rather your mother’s house/hospital?

Yet others tell us that life is a battlefield, so you should fight for everything and anything- they call it survival for the fittest. A greater percentage of the world believes in this myth and so has reduced humanity and the world in general into some National park.

We seem to have lost the voice of reason; when you want you don't ask, lest it be considered a sign of weakness; you attack. But whom do you attack or who is willing to be attacked?

Thugs therefore attack you and take what's yours because they are ready to fight for it and on the other hand you are expected to fight back to defend what you believe is yours, but if you are sane enough to realize that your phone or furniture is not worth your life, then you will look like you don't understand how life seems to operate.

However I believe those who think they understand this savage system of life are educated best when they visit the land of the dead

Anyhow as others consider themselves warriors in this life there are those who think life is a drama, so you tell them you are looking for a scholarship or a job and they burst out laughing thinking that you are being dramatic; they think you're probably doing rehearsals like them, they think you're acting out a big joke and so those who believe in this theory will tell you that if you can find humor in anything then you can survive.

Sweet as it may sound just how practical is it. Someone tell me in this 21st century how are you supposed to find humor in idling around while the rest of the world is working into something great. If life is really some sort of drama why then don't we have those lunatics as our role models?

Anyhow dramatic as it may look how many times will you be allowed to recite bearing in mind how short life is? Does life provide room for correction? When things don’t work do you just go on hoping that you are in the rehearsal stage and how do you gauge the rehearsal stage and the real stage?

In essence there are as many definitions to life as there are people in this life; yet these entire definitions pause a big question that if we were to delve into, we might not arrive at any sound conclusion.

Whatever you call it; whether a marathon, battle, drama or a joke, one thing clearly stands out- the vivid confusion! The confusion is so clear in our failure to answer crucial questions which only lives me with one theory, that life is a journey- the same way you don’t know a place until you reach there is the same way you know nothing about tomorrow until you live it. Life is a journey.

© 2009