What is life - perhaps a coin, a repeatedly tossed coin and death is simply the other side of this same coin of life. Life is all about common concerns, anxieties, hopes, attitudes and visions of the present and future. People mistake this coin of life to be a biased one, but alas, it will be too late till the day they realize that it is in fact a fair coin with the ferocious death on its other side.
The day has changed on the calendar. Yesterday is gone, joined with the past and will never come back. Yesterday’s flowers are dead in their vases; they will be replaced by today’s fresh ones and so is life. Generations come and generations go leaving behind their remains which keep lying in heaps of ashes, but a change is certain. Nothing is here to stay forever, everything has to keep moving.
The day has changed on the calendar. Yesterday is gone, joined with the past and will never come back. Yesterday’s flowers are dead in their vases; they will be replaced by today’s fresh ones and so is life. Generations come and generations go leaving behind their remains which keep lying in heaps of ashes, but a change is certain. Nothing is here to stay forever, everything has to keep moving.
A newly lighted candle, burns with a lot of enthusiasm. It emits a lot of light and enjoys the attention of everybody in the room but never realizes that it is melting and getting diminished. By the time it realizes it melts completely and is now too late to save itself. It suffers by flickering a lot and finally sleeps, leaving the room in darkness, and such is the case with life.
In this infinite universe, every being is like a grain of sand in a flowing river. In the river called fate, we get carried away along with its flow all through the course of our life.
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A veritable definition of life & death as it really and truly is.
Yes, we all float along that river of fate, meeting hindrances that we have to tackle. By overcoming these obstacles we learn to appreciate the joys & delights life has to offer.
I liked your example of the burning candle: Very akin to our diminishing lives.
Keep up the writing...It's all great reading...I always look forward to your posts...
nice piece of philosophy
Thanks a lot Margaret and Sandeep for your respective comments. Really, the comments provide enough encouragement to keep moving.
Though the post title reads "Simple thoughts on life ..." the thoughts are not as simple as stated in the title. Serious thoughts on life would be more apt i feel. The post makes the reader to seriously think about how swiftly life is passing by and what best can be done as long as we are here.
Lovely piece. Your comparisons are so fresh and apt.
Thanks for passing by, glad you like it.
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