What is LIFE?
I knew the confused answer somewhere in my mind, not as 'Love' was confused by Haddaway in his song 'What is Love' , but in a shorter frame. It was clearer after I read a quote by Dan Millman, An American Author.
Quote: Life has three rules: Humor, Paradox, and Change.
- Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is the strength beyond all measure.
- Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out.
- Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same. UnQuote.
My answer is now ready, excited and bouncing to come out of my brain with a slightly different perspective. So here it is the prolonged version.
Life is humor. Humor is colligated with Intelligence and Honesty. Humor is beyond excellence when it is associated with your self. People of all ages and cultures respond to humor. The majority of people are able to experience humor, to be amused, to laugh or smile at something funny, and thus they are considered to have a sense of humor.
Life is change and
change is paradox. We live in a paradox when it comes to change. Also we are
afraid of it. Change is security and we exercise it more than anything else in
our lifetime. Many of us make choices in our lives that will give us security.
We go to college, get a degree, choose a life partner with whom we can build a
safe and secure future. From school to university, from
student to professional, buying a car, from single to being married, buying a
home, having children - each of these steps toward 'security' involve community
change. Community has become essential. Each one of those moments represents a
crossroads we must navigate. Our addiction to comfort zones eventually leads
down that bumpy old road to dis-ease. If you are depressed with something, you
start the change process by being depressed. You do not change by trying to
change. Change follows from not changing. After the acceptance of where
you are now, comes something different – inevitably, and paradoxically, change
occurs when you stop trying to change and just be it. Once you start being,
change is inevitable because things in your environment (the world and other
people around you) will change. What you are now is what you are now. Frustrating and illogical perhaps. Often we hear a proverb - Change is constant. We search for human immortality and eternal youth, pray to everlasting Gods but I see as in life, Change is the only constant paradox and Life is a paradoxical change.
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