Life

Life

However advanced humans have become till date, there are certain questions that we just don't know the correct answers to. 

Maybe it's because they don't have a single answer....maybe it's because these questions are better off as questions, for the answers could be something totally unexpected.

However, that doesn't stop us from trying to find explanations for them. You see, one of the most primary characteristics of humans is "curiosity", and we just don't stop looking for an answer.

One such word, or rather question, has been one of the most challenging of them all.

Life. 

What really is the meaning of life? One may say, "to exist in this world". Well, some entities that "exist in this world" are labelled as non-living ones...to explain that, people say that they cannot carry out the basic functions of life. But...what exactly defines these functions, because these objects still continue to exist.

Lets try and dive deeper into this....from the very beginning of our planet.

Our planet was created a couple billion years ago, and humans were created about two million years back. As soon as we were created, we had to learn a variety of methods to survive in the wild. From being in the jungles to living in urban and advanced cities, mankind has come a long way, and we even claim to be the smartest of all in the animal kingdom.

However, have you ever wondered about just how much we don't know? From being collectively homeless, less intelligent and having absolutely no means of communication, just how exactly have we managed to reach where we are today? And to think that it all started from us being like any other animal species, another question that arises is, will the other animals also turn out to be like us?

Why wouldn't they? 

What would happen if they did?

I'll cover that outcome, and many more in the next parts of this mini-series...

Lets come back to the topic of life...we know that human lives start from the fertilization of egg cells. The eggs then get nutrients from the mother, and you know the rest. However, when exactly, in this entire process does the soul actually enter the body? Does the soul even exist?

If we do have a soul inside us, why do we need a complex organ system? Why can't the entity just....exist? And if we are the souls, why do we die....even when we don't want to. In fact, how can damage caused to an organ kill off the soul...why can't the soul just heal it up?

Another question that arises is...if the soul is a holy entity, why do we humans commit crimes? Do we have a bad side too? Can this side take over us? And if we do have souls, why are our memories limited? If we really are souls, why don't we know everything about ourselves?

Are our actions pre-set? Is our destiny already written?

What exactly is our purpose...some souls don't even manage to live until the age of a single human year...what purpose have they fulfilled? Or the case-closer could simply be that we don't have purposes...but then...

No matter how long one lives, you make a definite impact in the world and the entities around you. Whether it is what you do in your waking life, or whether it is by the impact of your death; you do leave a mark in the world. By this assumption, every single person has a purpose, whether they know it or not.

Which means there's a lot more to you, than even you know about.

Well, how do you find this purpose? And what happens once you do? Well, I don't think anyone will ever know, unless the Creator itself comes and tells you, but that doesn't stop me from putting forward my theory.

According to me, your purpose is more or less entirely related to whatever you do best, or what you love doing the most. As, if you think about it, that's the one thing you have the most control over, which means in your control, you could impact the world the most with it. In a positive way or not, that's up to you. 

One may ask, what after that? What after you're done with your purpose? What after you're done impacting the world with your "purpose"? Well, keep finding more. Don't settle! Many people keep saying that life is like a video game, and it makes sense too. You have challenges, they don't always end up going smoothly, but eventually you conquer the obstacles and finish the game. However, in these scenarios, people delete the game. Applying that to life would mean that your life is over the second you finish your purpose. 

I just can't accept that. I can't accept that you are obliged to just resign from all the things you could do just because you're done with one game. I don't believe life is a game.

I think life is more like the playstore.

In life you face obstacles, but you don't wait to die the second you overcome them...you look for more goals. You find more challenges, and keep achieving as many wins as possible until the Universe decides that your time is up, just the way your parents take the phone away from you when your screen-time is up.

Coming back to our first question; the definition of life. So what exactly is life? We have just concluded that in life, you interact with people, animals, and everything around you, leading to a certain impact on some, if not each one of them. While doing this you form friends, discover new things, learn new concepts, make memories, fulfill your purpose, overcome obstacles and fight your way to achieve success. 

According to me, the very opportunity, the very medium through which anyone can take a shot at doing all of that, the chance that the universe bestows upon you to experience this wild journey....

...that's life.

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This has been one of my most unique posts on this blog. Its not a story, its not a poem and neither is it an article. Yet its my perspective at telling you my theories about our story, trying to be as informative as possible and getting to conclusions that sound rather poetic.

If you'd like reading such posts in the future, along with my usual stories, poems and articles, please do let me know in the comment section below. Also let me know your views on the whole concept, as nobody really knows the meaning of anything in life.

 

And that's the beauty of it.

-Armaan Kothare