No matter how many people examine what life is and no matter how many references and stories written about life, its a never ending topic for the answer always seems so near yet so far. Well I would say it is probably the best topic to blog about as this is one place where no one is an expert in and I can get away with whatever I say as I am entitled to my opinion. Not to mention that I am as yet unemployed and so I have plenty of free time to keep wandering along this line of thinking.
Now getting right to the topic, what do we define life as? Scientifically or biologically I would say life is the existence of a cellular organism that converts energy from a latent state to a more usable form to achieve some predetermined or non predetermined objective and along the way enables the replication or creation of other organisms such as itself. Those who agree to the above are probably the enlightened souls who think there is nothing more to life other than existence and multiplication. To the ones who are a lot less enlightened the definition above would probably give raise to the question "is that all??!!!".
When people like us can create millions of lines of codes to create a software that can think with a limited amount of artificial intelligence, then I guess the great guy upstairs can create new versions of us everyday. Ultimately that is what is happening. The programming takes the 10 months or so required for us to be born and from a computer software point of view that would probably be enough coding for the seventy years of life that we are all supposed to lead. When we came into this world we did not have anything and when we leave, we leave empty handed. Sure we would say we leave behind goodwill and a good name but once you reach heaven or the after life these qualifications are ripped away and you start over from scratch. It is like the software is reformatted and put into a new hardware to create version 2.0.
I am a simple minded creature and I am not the type driven by my career. Probably my soul had no business getting reborn at this time and I should have stopped rebirth and attained nirvana during the stone age. To me a beautiful thing is to ride along a road which has a canopy of trees and the visual treat of greenery around you and the drop in temperature and the kind of coolness that makes you feel fresh. This feeling makes me feel like I am really alive and hands out almost a zen like tranquility. I am no "PO" from Kung Fu Panda to achieve inner piece (Although i could be a panda in size). Still this peace makes me feel like I am living. Other instances of really living life is to be surrounded by people who care. Now that is something most will agree. There is nothing like joking around with a friend over some awesome food and the best part is your friend is the one paying the bill! So I guess life is actually much more simple than I imagined. Sure there will be hundreds of things that crop up when you least expect it to and each time some thing comes up it will feel like the "end of the World as you know it" but ultimately we get to keep going and living.
It would be cool to know how our future will turn out but then again there is this paradox that once you know what your future is you will change it no matter how comfortable it may seem. Either you get reassured that you will have a good life and become complacent or you see yourself in a bad way and work harder so there is no point in seeing the future. The past is a nice place with loads of memories and experiences that may be good as well as bad and it fills you up with nostalgia. Hold on to these because they show that "you have been there and done that" etc etc. Ultimately it is how we live today that matters. The gift of the present. Sometimes it boggles my mind to know that each second I have lived is in the past. Still I guess that is how we have to live. Take each day as it comes and watch the day go by as we work, play, love and ultimately live. On a conclusive point I would say please keep life simple. Be alive for each second for it fades into the past and above all there is no one specific way to live life. To each his/her own preference. Just live on along the lines that you usually do but spare a thought to be grateful that you breathe, appreciate the food you eat, lose yourself in the music of your soul, rejoice and love the company of your loved ones, to put it in a nutshell just LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When people like us can create millions of lines of codes to create a software that can think with a limited amount of artificial intelligence, then I guess the great guy upstairs can create new versions of us everyday. Ultimately that is what is happening. The programming takes the 10 months or so required for us to be born and from a computer software point of view that would probably be enough coding for the seventy years of life that we are all supposed to lead. When we came into this world we did not have anything and when we leave, we leave empty handed. Sure we would say we leave behind goodwill and a good name but once you reach heaven or the after life these qualifications are ripped away and you start over from scratch. It is like the software is reformatted and put into a new hardware to create version 2.0.
I am a simple minded creature and I am not the type driven by my career. Probably my soul had no business getting reborn at this time and I should have stopped rebirth and attained nirvana during the stone age. To me a beautiful thing is to ride along a road which has a canopy of trees and the visual treat of greenery around you and the drop in temperature and the kind of coolness that makes you feel fresh. This feeling makes me feel like I am really alive and hands out almost a zen like tranquility. I am no "PO" from Kung Fu Panda to achieve inner piece (Although i could be a panda in size). Still this peace makes me feel like I am living. Other instances of really living life is to be surrounded by people who care. Now that is something most will agree. There is nothing like joking around with a friend over some awesome food and the best part is your friend is the one paying the bill! So I guess life is actually much more simple than I imagined. Sure there will be hundreds of things that crop up when you least expect it to and each time some thing comes up it will feel like the "end of the World as you know it" but ultimately we get to keep going and living.
It would be cool to know how our future will turn out but then again there is this paradox that once you know what your future is you will change it no matter how comfortable it may seem. Either you get reassured that you will have a good life and become complacent or you see yourself in a bad way and work harder so there is no point in seeing the future. The past is a nice place with loads of memories and experiences that may be good as well as bad and it fills you up with nostalgia. Hold on to these because they show that "you have been there and done that" etc etc. Ultimately it is how we live today that matters. The gift of the present. Sometimes it boggles my mind to know that each second I have lived is in the past. Still I guess that is how we have to live. Take each day as it comes and watch the day go by as we work, play, love and ultimately live. On a conclusive point I would say please keep life simple. Be alive for each second for it fades into the past and above all there is no one specific way to live life. To each his/her own preference. Just live on along the lines that you usually do but spare a thought to be grateful that you breathe, appreciate the food you eat, lose yourself in the music of your soul, rejoice and love the company of your loved ones, to put it in a nutshell just LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
