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Is life a prison?

Written by: Riddhis Sharma - 2025012, Grade VII

Posted on: 24 February, 2021

Life is not something to regret, but is something to be disappointed! I know life is something to be grateful about and enjoy but being a student, I wonder if life is a prison to this soul of ours that existed for a long! I wonder if this soul can travel through space and universes. What if someone discovers that this life and body is a prison to this soul and is something that keeps us from having vast information about this universe? What if there is no heaven or hell but only empty space that this soul goes back to when this prison life is broken traveling throughout the universe and space seeing millions of creatures in a blink of an eye?

This world we see now might be an illusion and might be keeping us from obtaining real peace and prosperity. “This is just something a kid thought and is not true”, you might say but this kid here might have some ability that the stressed eye of an adult might not see! Science is great and I believe this but can’t you just see it from another point of view for once! 

I believe life is cruel and is stopping us from obtaining the true reality that this living planet has never offered! Could you please see in my point of view for once and feel the curiosity I have? And if life really is just a prison that is trapping me, I wonder what it is like to die and see what this thing we call life is made of? But as long as life allows one should live! Now sometimes I also think that this body and the planets we see with our physical eyes are just things made up of soul and energy which is letting us be just like humans let dandruff be on their heads. Earth might be the same as humans and might not see that we are living beings on it. For long, I thought about it and somehow felt it made sense and also found that at the same time it did not! And once again I want to repeat that life could be a cruel prison!