The Irony of Life ..!

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Questions are never difficult, what makes them difficult are their answers, and sometimes the questions which seem to be easiest are in fact the toughest. It was some six years back I got an opportunity to read Nehru’s Discovery of India. It was neither by choice nor by chance but it was just a part of my course curriculum, I had to study it. There was a chapter in the book named Life’s philosophy. I toiled with best of my health and spirit to get the essence of it. But I was not mature enough to digest it. Though there was not a single difficult word in thechapter nor the way it was written considered bad, in fact good writing skills was the only worth quality of Nehru. The fact is topic itself was difficult and philosophical one.

How can we define Life..? In fact we can’t define anything. When we try to define something we are just putting our opinion about that, that is bounded by its traits and characteristics. Till yet I never got a satisfactory answer of the question who are you..?? There are many thousands of people who share the same name along with same Father’s name. Everyday millions of people born at the same timestamp, so what makes us unique to define ourselves..? Anyhow being human we learn the art of confusing very soon if we failed to learn the art of convincing. But still there are some questions which fascinates me and they include What is Life..? What is the sole purpose of our life..? and what is the irony of our Life..?

Well when we entered this world we are loved by everyone, when we left this world we are admired by everyone but in between these two, the amount of love and admiration we got defines our life. Everyone dies but not everyone truly lives and the irony of our life is it goes on. When a child is born, his world is limited to his parent. According to him their exist only two persons in this world and that are his parents, because they are the only one whom he saw, but as he grows up he meet new faces and create his own life. His life in no way then dependant on his parents even when they left him he lived in the same way and so the life goes on.

The irony of our life lies in the fact throughout our life we desire to let the things happen in the way we want them to happen. We have certain expectations from our life and when these expectations remain unfulfilled, we lost the essence of life. Life is not only a bed of roses but also a path of thorns. Those who accept this fact truly smell the fragrance of life.

We have to realize the fact that the life we are living actually comprises of moments and these moments are unique, once they passed away they shall never be back. Sometimes we wanted to get back in life to say sorry to few persons whom we lost because we didn’t apologize at the right time. Sometimes we wanted to get back in life to confess our love for person whom we deeply loved, but never expressed because we didn’t have courage, without realizing that the two most painful thing in our life is when our lover loves us and he/she didn’t tell it to us and the other one is when he/she didn’t love us and we fell it. Life is a one time opportunity which must be spent precisely and carefully. When we were born we were the sole owner of our life but as we grow up we realized that we are someone’s brother, we are someone’s son, we are someone’s friend and lastly but significantly we are someone’s heart. So our life is not only ours and hence we must be conscious to build best out of it.
The irony of life lies in the fact that there is always a true love and unforgettable heartbreak in every life, but the more ironical is the way we break after such heartbreaks. We never want anything wrong in our life. We want the persons whom we love to be with us throughout their lives and if by chance they left us we walked away from our life. How can and why should we waste our life for someone who doesn’t worth it.

The irony or our life lies in the fact that dreams always fascinates us, we dream to be someone else without realizing that we are unique and by doing so we ourselves are killing that unique identity. We look at those who are above us but we forget that their exists a world below us. We laughed at someone if he’s not fair looking without realizing the fact he is not at all responsible for his looks. We wanted to be single when we are committed and we wanted to be committed when we are single.

We can create our life in the way we want. In fact we are solely responsible for everything that exists and happens in our life, so we should never regret about anything because if its good, its wonderful and if not then an experience. We have to realize the fact that everyone can make a living but not everyone can make a life..