Thought Train #1: Life

Ok don't know where to start from. What is life? Which life? One self's life? The life of all people all together, all living things? 

The thing is, everything is connected, one can not consider his life alone. I believe or I like to believe that decisions we make affect all of us all together, one way or the other.

Still, what is life? My own idea will be picturesque as I like to visualize things. For me life can be just sitting in front of a lake in a sunny winter day. It can be the moment when you step at the highest point of a mountain. It can be free roaming in the night at a very highly populated city. It can be the feeling of a gentle breath of fresh air, it can be the sound of the ocean. The traffic in the morning, and the complete utter silence of the night. It can be the good well deserved night sleep. It can be the break of a sweet while runing across the street while singing like a euphoric teenager. It can be a kiss goodbye. It can be a flight back home. It can be just sitting on the couch starring at the ceiling whilst enjoying the warm rays of the sun in the spring. It can be this gust of cold wind in a below zero temperature with nothing except white eternal snow around you. A simple cup of coffee in the morning.

Then, comes the question of the purposes of life. A deep question that can be answered philosophically or religiously. I guess. I mean take a look at the ideas of existentialism, nihilism and absurdism. Does life have a purpose? Does our life have a purpose? Or a meaning? Is it a pre-set? Or should we make a purpose and meaning of our own? Or shouldn't we, and enjoy life spontaneously without any plans or remorse, life as it comes and goes, with its ups and downs. The meaning of life is definitely not one for all of us, yet we might share the same routes -as well as cultural pre sets and social constructs- to a higher purpose, which eventually give us higher meaning of life for all of us besides our own discovered meaning and purpose of this life.

Whether you believe life has a meaning or purpose or not, that should not make you any less a discoverer of your own purpose and meaning of life, in your own terms in whatever way you would like.

As infants, we naturally tend to roam around, to discover our surroundings, name them as we move a long, learn about things, understand mechanisms and laws of nature, laws of this life. And we shouldn't stop, we shouldn't get stuck in one place, deep-rooted into it, while yearning for something else. 

We should never in this journy of not so many years stop searching for our own purpose and meaning. Yet, don't forget to enjoy the journey itself, enjoy life with all what's going on. 

Reflect and think on the simplest of things to the most complex. Wander in the forest, enjoy the smell of fresh rain, while sun rays are trying to escape the shadows of the trees. Read about the dark matter, the dimensions of the universe, string theory. There is so much in this life to enjoy, learn, absorb and understand more than our own lifetime, hence enjoy your own tailored journey because at the end the journey, your own journy brings a meaning and draws the purpose to your life.

Years from now, I would like to say, damn I have lived life as I wanted, and as I wanted me to remember it. I will heartdly remember the colors of nature, the sounds of the traffic, the beautiful faces and the majestic buildings, I will cry over dear farwell moments and laugh at memories of a welcome home. 

Of course, I am gonna regret things but I wouldn't put so much weight into it, mistakes are made for us to learn from, although we can be mad men and do the same experiment waiting different results. But it can be mistakes that challenge us to change, to experience different paths of this journy. 

At the end I hope each of us to at least once in his lifetime to experience a moment when we say: damn, I am full of life right now.