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What is life?

What does it mean? These two are the most common questions asked by seekers. But as a philosopher puts it this way that there are questions that cannot be answered and there are answers that cannot be questioned. There are either two kinds of people, one who love life and the second who live each day complaining for what she/he doesn’t have. Different people have different meanings and perceptions about life.

Life is a great teacher; everything that happens, happens for a good reason, good or bad. Happiness, sadness and depression etc, no matter how painful or joyful they are, help us better understand life. Because no matter what the condition one experiences, it always turns out to be a lesson. Life demands brave people rather than the cowardly. Life is like a game owing to the challenges and the rewards we get. It’s also like a journey owing to its length and adventures along the way. But then, it’s also like a gift as there’ll be a lot of giving and receiving involved. But above all, life is like a classroom where we are the students and life the teacher with so many lessons for us; as we learn and as well prepare for. Mistakes are not problems but reacting to them is, falling is not a failure, never getting up is and crying is not a problem but waiting for someone else to wipe your tears is. Additionally, life can be also taken just like a bus as there are so many passengers in it with different backgrounds. We all travel together but everyone has a different purpose. That purpose is what drives us. There are times, when conditions can get so worse that people start blaming their life and the situations they suffer but situations are not what shapes people instead people are the ones who can shape the situation.

The writer can be reached at qamar.amdad@gmail.com