What is life? What are its meanings? What are its natures? What are its origins? What are its ends? What are its objectives? What are its principles? What are its courses? What are its components?
Is life merely the act of living now? Or is it the process of living over a period of time? Is life merely living, then? Does it mean, then, that anybody who is living has a life? How many people believe that they have no life since they have no relations? Do relations make life, then? Well how many people accord prime importance to possessions? Is possession life then? How many people take money as their life? Is it money then that is life? They say life is an experience while money is an object. Or is it really?
Money, they say, is not in what it is but what it does. Money, they say, makes many. In a nation of one billion people, how many billionaires are there? Is money life? Then what about the experience of life?
Is life an experience of consciousness? An awareness of the self? Then where does this self lie in us? George Herbert Mead, the father of symbolic interactionism, said "self is not a physical structure but a mental process of emerging awareness". But without the physical perpetuation of life in the body, how can one have life? In that case, is life all about physical existence?
Some say it is meaningful physical existence. Then what is that meaning that makes life liveable? Is it kinship? How many people remember and interact with kins? Is it wealth? How many people who live can claim to have a wealth? It is religion then that gives the meaning? How many lives have been taken in the name of religion? Is it love that gives meaning? How many are lovers of life?
What is life then? Is it physical sensibilities, emotional underpinnings, mental processes, intellectual searches, spiritual journeys or a combination of all of these? Or is it people- friends, relatives, acquaintances, their goals, dreams, networks, habits and social processes that make life?
Is there an answer? Is there one answer or many?
Am I expected to give these answers?
What the hell, somebody told me it was all about asking the right questions !!
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