What is life? I was thinking about it on my way home. Then it flashed. Walking on a lonely road, with your head raised, looking at the sky and getting lost in the sky is life. Taking a deep breath of cool air is life. Drinking a glass full of water when you are too thirsty is life. Eating delicious food when you are dead hungry is life. Nothing else matters. May be emotions are not life. They just mar the beauty of all these things that are life. They take us away from life. Takes away our capacity to enjoy life. Don't you agree?
“ What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” -- Jack Kerouac (American Poet and Novelist) From what I have seen and admired in humans, they are eternal optimists. Goodbyes seem to break us, but we straighten up and walk, holding our head high, blinking away our tears. And as regards the specks of people dispersing, when something moves away, something else comes near. Guess that's how laws of nature move. If a time comes when nothing else comes near, it's when we will become really alone; alone to live and love life without any reason, taking the next step forward.
i agree with first few lines.but i don't think emotions are not life.how can one live without emotions like love,happiness......?
ReplyDeleteIts an interesting question to ponder over!
ReplyDeleteThis is one and only fundamental questions which is percieved differently in different situations.
Look at "Bruguvalli" for one of the oldest attempt to know what is life :)
That's why I added 'May be' in the beginning. I know without emotions there is no life, but they should be part of life, not the whole life. If they encircle us fully, then we can not perceive anything else, good or bad.
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