WHAT COMES TO YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORD ‘LIFE’?

in #life6 years ago

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Life has many phases. It means different things to different people. Whenever i hear the word life, i breathe heavily.

Life could mean the happenings around the world and it could also mean negative things to an African, especially someone from the Western part of Nigeria.

Life in Yoruba language means also 'aye' and 'aye' literally means witch. Whenever the word witch is mentioned, people have funny ideas and in most cases negative ones.

Whenever you see an African man breathe heavily and mentioned the world life, then you will know the person is in deep thought.

If you ask a rich man the meaning of life, he would probably mention the merry aspect of it. The enjoyment and the beauty that comes to life when you have money to spend.

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If you ask a poor man similar question, you would probably get sad answers filled with many downs and few ups. Life to a poor man is mostly about sorrow and those days he slept on empty stomach.

Life to me inexplicable. I cannot really capture it. It is beautiful and sad at the same time. Life is beautiful when you look at nature and the good things we have sometimes. But sad because of the agony, pains, accidents and death.

When i look at life, i remember the joy of a mother carrying her baby after birth. The joy of the father, the family and neighbours. When i look further, i see struggle that awaits the kid. He will battle with sickness, sleep hungry sometime, wake up early to go to school, study hard to pass exams and will face many ups and downs in between. After that, then struggle to be independent. Be a man or settle down as a woman and start the circle of birth again. During this time, the body is already getting old and the things he/she does normally and easily becomes hard. And before you know it, death is already knocking at the door.

Life to me is nothing but vanity. Life is where we pursue things we need only to feed this flesh. Life is a place where what matters to us is future and in most cases tomorrow. Life is where i, me and myself counts more than we and all of us.

What do you think about the world you live in? If you were asked to define life, what would it be? If you had the choice not to come to this world, would you have taken it?

What is life to you?

Thanks for your time. I am @smyle.

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