Life: It's not Meaningless

Many philosophers have told life is meaningless and many believe that this life on Earth is nothing but a transitory period from one life to another until entering the eternity. Whatever the beliefs are live still holds its meaning. Can any of you think life as meaningless, I can’t because life has presented or manifested its meaning in my life through a lot of incidents or instances.

When I wake up in the morning it’s not ‘maya’ or ‘illusion’ that I am awake, I feel awake because I really am awake. I would like to present a simple example if life was an illusion why do I feel pain when I pinch myself? Or why do I feel thirst or hunger? Are they illusions too? The answer is no. Life has a lot of meanings. The question is how do you define or find the meaning of your life?

A few years back I used ask myself, every night before going to bed, why do I exist? Or what does my life mean? For years I couldn’t find the answer. As I grew up my understanding of life changed and improved. We know how much a child’s life means to his/her mother or to his/her father. I have heard mothers’ say that their children are their life. A lover says he can give his life for her, she says she loves him more than her life, and they define their life as someone else. I have felt that life is more than just to exist. I don’t mean we have to make a change in the world either. All I feel everyone should do is that everyone should see life as gift. A gift given to them so that they may bring some happiness in the lives around them. I’ tried to live like that but failed so many times, but I don’t give up.

When you help someone by giving them directions to their destination, you’re giving a little meaning to your life. When you donate blood you are being the meaning of someone else’s life. Talking about blood donation, I was all prepared to donate blood once but at the last moment they said they got someone else, I hope I’ll be able to do it sometime. So we define our lives. People around us can also influence our life but still they can’t change anything in the meaning of our life if we don’t allow. There are only few things that do not ask our permissions and comes upon us all of a sudden. We should not worry about the things on which we have no control.

I have noticed a habit of many people that sometimes when something bad happen to them, they say it’s their fate and they do nothing about it. Now, that is a very bad habit. We have to accept bad thing that happen in our lives, and should try hard enough to change that situation to something better. We should never give up, we still have a chance to succeed until we give up. If we ever give up in life, we can always give it a second chance.

I am so much of a supporter of giving a second chance to people. For example if your student fails in an exam, you must ask him what happened. You must give him a second chance. If your boyfriend fails to pick you up in the right time you can show your anger on him but give him another chance. So don’t ever give up.

It is possible that people gets confused about the meaning of their lives or ignore one aspect of the meaning of their life and only focuses on one. A businessman may ignore or fail to give his family the love and care they deserve while putting all their time to earn more money. A scientist may get little time to spend with his child. A computer engineer may forget he has family when he is near the deadline of a project. Things like these can happen in life. We should find time to spend with those who care for us. It’s because they give meaning to your life.

Your life is not to be simply lived and to be forgotten, define a meaning for your life as you g along that long road. A meaning that will always be remembered…