Life is a journey that is meant to be embraced to the fullest everyday. However, we do not realize how great life can be, because the hurdles, difficulties and pleasures of life, has influenced our definitions of life.
Life is sweet/fair and still hard/unfair for others . Some of us take life too seriously while most of see life as a joke. What life means to you is definitely not what it means to me. Definition of life is determined by so many factors (psychological, environmental, emotional). How life treats us, shapes how we define it.
The Oxford Dictionary defines life as the state that follows birth, and precedes death. The state of being alive.
But i define life as a mirage of one's mind. I feel that we possess the power to make life what we want it to be. What we create in our minds tend to play out i reality.
Life is what we make it, it always has been and it always will be.
I have heard people define life as:
Pot of burnt beans:-means, nothing seems to be progressing around them.
Merry-go-round:-meaning nothing new is achieved, same old everyday .
A jungle, where survival is for the fittest.
My mama once said Life's like box of Chocolate, you might never know what you might get.
However you define life, just bear in mind we only have one life to live.
Despite what we think about Life it doesn't change the fact that, we only live once. Only one chance to live life to the fullest/ maximum. Stephen King once said" Get busy living or get busy dying"
The world has advanced in technology but the device that has the capacity to restore a dead man, in order to give him a second chance to live, is yet to be developed. This means once dead forever gone.
Let's learn to embrace the life we've got, even with thorns around it. Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
We sit and sulk over how hard our lives are, forgetting that there are people who would kill to be in our shoes. Hard times will come and go, your response to it will determine your happiness in Life.
Living life to the fullest entails:
finding out God's purpose in our lives and pursuing it.
Living as if we are to die tomorrow and learn as if we are to live forever.
Tying our lives to goals(long and short terms) and not people or things.
Embracing each day and making it a masterpiece.
Finding people who brings out the best in us and make them buddies.
Discovering what makes us happy and diving deep into It.
Making impacts in lives of people in our community through our talents and gifts. etc
Nobody who put in his best to life has ever regretted it. Remember we only have once to live. Once gone forever gone, let's live a life that will put footprints on the sands of time. So when we leave this world, we leave with no regrets.
What do you define life as? Share with us.
Just one life indeed. Nice article