Life
By The Pakistani Spectator • Jul 18th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized • 8 CommentsLife is the most prominent of the qualities that distinguish a vital being from an inanimate matter. It is an inestimable blessing, its value is much more than we can imagine. Life is beautiful like a rose but to enjoy its fragrance,one needs to be extremely cautious of the thorns that accompany it. Life is benign only to those who enjoy it in all circumstances.
Our life is full of improbabilities. Life is, in fact, what happens to us while we are busy making other plans. It may take a sudden turn and lead us toward an end that we may never have imagined. Life is a mystery; it is a labyrinth, a maze in which we may take a wrong turning before we have learnt to walk. It is like a deep forest__ if lost it may become too difficult for us to trace our way back. Life is something serious, something that requires our attention. It is like a tragi-comedy where we may experience the ups and downs of life__ now happy and at another moment gloomy, this process continues till we reach our end. Its end will be peaceful only if our past is unblemished. What life requires from us is constant struggle, our journey towards the zenith maybe slow but if this journey is steady then we are bound to enjoy its fruit through eternity.
In life, sometimes, it is not the big things but the little things that can be of more value. Often in our pursuit of some great happiness we neglect little happy moments of our life; the moments that can mean enough; the moments that carry the real smack of life.
In short, to enjoy life to its full, it is an essential requirement to have a complete perception of what life actually is. Life is just like a chameleon, changing its colour too often. It demands serious consideration on our part to understand it. It is an art that we should develop; an adventure that we must dare to undertake; a tragedy that requires to be faced courageously; a destiny that we have to accept; a mystery that we need to unravel, a challenge that we must meet; a dream that needs to be realized, and a beauty that deserves our admiration.
‘Post contributed by Talal Hussain Malik’
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“Private Life? I don’t think you can find this word in my dictionary… my life is Metallica 24 hours a day!” - Lars.
What is life? Does this sound like a strange question to you? Of course we all know what is meant by the word “life”, but how would you define it?
Do all living things move? Do they all eat and breathe? Even though we all seem to know what is meant by saying something is “alive”, it’s not very easy to describe what “life” is. It’s almost as hard as describing where life came from.
Even the biologists (people who study life) have a tough time describing what life is! But after many years of studying living things, from the mold on your old tuna sandwich to monkeys in the rainforest, biologists have determined that all living things do share some things in common:
A truck driver often says at the back of truck, “Love is Life”.
Predominately considered to be a characteristic of humans, plants and animals. However, even inert matter is in constant movement and change. We continue to find life in places that we did not believe that it could exist, such as on the bottom of the sea floor around thermal vents. Perhaps our ideas of what is living and what is non-living are flawed and merely the measure of our ignorance and restricted powers of observation.
Among the estimated ten million species on the planet, an unparalleled power of conscious awareness has evolved a unique species - Homo sapiens. With exquisitely developed sensitivities, we can delight in the abundant pleasures of our senses. With unprecedented intelligence, imagination, and language capabilities, we can celebrate our creations in the arts and literature, our discoveries in science, our inventions in technology, and the other glories of human culture. With our unique form of conscious awareness, we are not only part of nature, as are other creatures, but with our minds we can stand outside of nature and reflect both on nature itself and on our own human nature. Without parallel among all other life forms on Earth, we have evolved the conscious experience of self-identity as a subject distinct from all else as object. But with self-awareness comes death-awareness. With self-consciousness comes the capacity to worry - increasingly aware that life is full of uncertainties, that life can go wrong for us. In time we discover the Tree of Good and Evil.
Many of us who are convinced religious believers do not need to ask the basic questions of life. We already have the answers!
Anonymous: What it took you much effort, truck driver said it in three words.