Thursday, July 01, 2004
What is Life?
What is life? I wonder.
Someone said, “Life is a roller coaster, it goes up and it comes down. There are expectations on the ride up, there are excitement and thrills at the top, there is also the the danger and the sinking feeling on the way down.”
Some other said, “Life is a jungle filled with obstacles testing us all the way. We gain more skills and become wiser after each experience. This is what keeps us moving on with life.”
When I was young, I once said” Life is an ocean, it has the vastness, the beauty, the waves, the tides, the winds, the danger, the horizon, the deep dark secrets beneth the surface and the adventure. Above all, the ocean supports life”
People go about in their life everyday. Some live in luxury with their health ane wealth. Some other have the means and the available support system from the government or society to ensure that life continue with certainty. While some live a challenging live, others live a routine life. And for the less fortunate, life is a never ending struggle, a struggle without protection. To these people, they live their lives in hope. It is the hope for a better future that keep them going. Without hope, life would be routine and mundane. Without hope, life would be without purpose and meaningless.
After going through the ups and the downs, the waves and the storms, I now say: “Life is a journey. It can be a long journey with a far destination. It can be a series of individual short journeys with many stop over or rest places in between.”
It does not matter what you have encountered in your journey, and what you have experienced, you acquire more skills, gained more knowledge and you move on the journey with more wisdom and hopefully much happier.
Someone said, “Life is a roller coaster, it goes up and it comes down. There are expectations on the ride up, there are excitement and thrills at the top, there is also the the danger and the sinking feeling on the way down.”
Some other said, “Life is a jungle filled with obstacles testing us all the way. We gain more skills and become wiser after each experience. This is what keeps us moving on with life.”
When I was young, I once said” Life is an ocean, it has the vastness, the beauty, the waves, the tides, the winds, the danger, the horizon, the deep dark secrets beneth the surface and the adventure. Above all, the ocean supports life”
People go about in their life everyday. Some live in luxury with their health ane wealth. Some other have the means and the available support system from the government or society to ensure that life continue with certainty. While some live a challenging live, others live a routine life. And for the less fortunate, life is a never ending struggle, a struggle without protection. To these people, they live their lives in hope. It is the hope for a better future that keep them going. Without hope, life would be routine and mundane. Without hope, life would be without purpose and meaningless.
After going through the ups and the downs, the waves and the storms, I now say: “Life is a journey. It can be a long journey with a far destination. It can be a series of individual short journeys with many stop over or rest places in between.”
It does not matter what you have encountered in your journey, and what you have experienced, you acquire more skills, gained more knowledge and you move on the journey with more wisdom and hopefully much happier.
