what exactly is life

One morning, I woke to realize that I exist I woke to realize  that I wasn't just a biological construction capable of carrying out all those characteristics of living  things  that was drummed into our brains  in our high school days. Me myself just like you, him, her and every other being alive come to this realization at some point in our lives, some at a very tender age while that of others came a bit later. but it was only then in that moment when we gained  consciousness of our  being  that our lives truly began.

Its  said that life's a gift, a gift because no one worked to have it or choose to possess it.  We all found ourselves entrusted with it. It’s a gift of nature some say, No! it’s a gift from loving parents, yet many believe it’s a gift from God. If now we pretend that we've all agree on this point and forge ahead. We begin to ask: why?. why Where we entrusted with this gift called life, perhaps we alone can answer this question satisfactorily,  Although its would seam quite easier to answer towards the end of our lives than at the beginning. 

Life as we know it is not just breadth and blood, life is the vessel  that encapsulates  meaning, and meaning  is  what  everyone hope to attach to their lives  because otherwise this gift of life would seam a burden, a burden of troubles and challenges, misery and hardships. Perhaps not for all  but for a number of people who’s  own  bundle of the gift of life  took them to a place harsh, unfriendly, ungodly, or undesirable. If we attach meaning to life, meaning  to the activities that form the block of our lives then only then can we say we've had life. Yes! there are fun things to do, memories to keep, and people to love, but the meaning  of life overshadows it all. so pause for just a minute and ask yourself...

              What meaning does my life have?

A good question, but a better puzzle to solve goes thus: what meaning am I allowing my life to have? A good meaning or  bad one? yes we allow our lives to have meaning by the things we allow in our lives, by the choices we make that eventually make us, and by the environment we create first in us and then around us.

 

Its best we always remember certain things will never change: life in this earthly body is a diminishing commodity. We may have it preserved greatly by the measure of care we give our earthly vessel and by consciously adding meaning to it or we can waste it with the pursuit of obscene tendencies. Yet life continues to reach its end, ebbing away even if we don’t want it to... even if we don’t want it to!!

Now smile! smile  because we have a choice, a choice given by to us by time and grace. Time gives us opportunities  to add life to our years, not just years to our lives. It allows us to add meaning and fun and love and knowledge and all the good things we can imagine. But grace, Grace  allows us to extend our lives even beyond the limit of the frailty afforded by our earthen vessel. Grace allows us to redeem otherwise meaningless lives in a flash, a second of redemption, to turning  a new leaf and start life anew. Now even now will you? will you give your life all it requires? 

 I ask again what is life ? 

                     ...life is what we make of it.

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