LIFE

We all talk about and perceive life in our own way. But what is life really like? How do we define life? What is it that constitutes life? Well starting with the simplest and yet the most complex definition of  life given by the dictionary is -"the existence of an individual human being or animal." or "the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death." But wait, is life that simple! Is life only about ability to breathe, going by the definition given by the dictionaries. If anything, this holds true for the primitive society where categorization of different beings was a perplexed undertaking and apparently they didn't know much about society, world and universe. But with the advent of civilization life is much more than just being denoted by something which is not dead or breathless. Today the word life alone has many connotations attached to it. For example, when I want to say that I am having the best time ever, I say that I am having the time of my life; we say as big as life when we want to talk about something larger than usual or grand; when we revive someone or something we say that we breathed life into it; when we want to get rid of something monotonous we say that we need a change of life; when we want someone to change radically we say go get a life and so on. So, hasn't life got much more connotations and importance than just the act of breathing? 

                                       Life is nothing but a collection of moments. It constitutes of the kind of moments we have lived that defines the kind of life we led. If our life has more beautiful and happy moments we definitely had a fulfilling and satisfactory life. In the same way if we have more sad or unhappy moments than the happy ones, we are said to have a disappointing life. But then again isn't it us who determine and label the moments of our life as good or bad, sad or happy, disheartening or fulfilling, and so on. It also depends on us that how we perceive a moment that we spend. Usually as human beings we tend to complain about every moment of what we don't have rather than appreciating what we already have. So in that case we are the ones who decide that how a particular moment we are going to spend adds charm to our life. There are small priceless moments which always go unnoticed. Putting it differently there is very few of us who actually enjoy every moment of our life with whatever we have. We hardly realize that life is all about the value we add to our moments which consequently constitutes our life. 

                                     Moments of joy on getting a compliment for the duplicate and cheap clothes we were embarrassed to wear, moments of satisfaction on having a tummy full of sweets after observing that one day fast, moments of achievement when you run that extra mile, moments of togetherness when your friends accompany you on that road less taken, moments of sorrow when the longing for the loved one continues, moment of feeling positive in life when someone silently makes a promise to stand by your side all your life, moment of love when your mom calls you every day just to make sure that her insane daughter is taking her meals on time.. All these moments would not have been felt as we feel them when we look at them now or may be a few years later. So do whatever you believe in and keep it simple. Don't complicate your life doing something that others expect you to do. We have just one life to live and living is not about being right or wrong, good or bad, high or low. Life is about experiencing all that you can in these limited number of years and create the best of the moments possible. Life is made life not by living the moments but rather creating them the way we want them to be.