What is life? Have we ever tried finding out the answer to this question. Even if we have tried it would be difficult. I have asked several people what is life and what do you mean by it. The replies I have got to the question seem to be pretty interesting. They say life is about money, cars, house, food, clothing, shelter, aircraft, ship, family, friendship, love, happiness, pride, respect, party, trust, recognition in society and several others. Most of us would have also given the same reply. There is nothing wrong in any of the above replies.
Life in short is happiness. As human beings we would always love to be happy throughout our life. This in itself would give us great joy in living a good and a happy life. We have to split our life in to two parts- one that is connected with our body and other with our mind & heart. Let us now segregate the above replies in to these two parts of life;
| Body | Mind & Heart |
| · Food · Clothing · Shelter ( House) · Money · Cars · Aircraft · Ship · Mobile Phone · Computers- Laptop | · Love · Trust · Friendship · Happiness · Pride · Respect · Recognition in society · Family |
From the above table we can see that one those connected with body have limited period. For Example, food has life of 2-5 minutes. Once consumed, it is over. Money once spent is over. Similarly, cars mobile phone, computers etc is used for a period of 2-4 years and then replaced with another one.
Have we ever taught about it? We have wasted our entire life on earning money, being greedy for acquiring or utilizing with things connected with our body. We must introspect ourselves. How many of us have actually invested/spent our time for family, happiness, pride, trust etc connected with our mind and body? Answer to this is nil. Matters connected with body give us happiness but those are only material happiness which lasts only for a certain period of time. But matters connected with mind and heart gives us happiness for lifetime. This is what we actually want. Happiness for lifetime rather than happiness for a certain period of time. We have never spent time looking for this kind of happiness. This is not anybody’s fault. Unfortunately this is happening everywhere across the world.
Today you have husband and wife working. But they hardly ever meet except when they have common holidays. They are earning money for what? For future. What is the point of saving for future when you are not living the present to its fullest. In future you will end up doing the same thing. Finally what happens? You end up earning money but never spend. You have wasted your entire life on matters connected with body but have never invested any time on those connected with mind and heart that is family, love, trust and so on. What is point of having such a life. It’s like a life of a machine.
Remember one important aspect, never cheat anyone in life. It takes years to build friendship, trust, love but all this can be lost in a matter of a moment once you cheat anyone. Respect, Pride everything is lost. Never betray or cheat anyone irrespective of the circumstances.
I have tried explaining about the complex life in simple language. Once again, friends, life is all about happiness. Happiness is in our mind and heart and not those connected with body. My search about the meaning of life continues. Always remember the great satisfaction in life is love, trust, happiness. Material things will come and go. But what remains with you will always be your mind and heart.
