Written by: Eshaan Kumar Rajbhandari - 27027, Grade IX
Posted on: 15 February, 2024
When I ask what life is, some say life is characterized by the complex and organized systems of living organisms, exhibiting features such as growth, reproduction, metabolism, responsiveness to stimuli, and adaptation to the environment. Similarly, some say that life is a continuous process, like a never-ending journey, while others say that life is something that will end once its time has come.
Then I ask again, what does it mean to live if we are eventually going to die? Death is the contradicting term to life. It has a different meaning and is directly opposite to life. The point of living, even though we eventually die, is that once we have experienced every single aspect of life, we would not have any regrets when we die. Once you start to feel like you owe this life to yourself, even if you were to die right here and now, you won’t have any regrets. Life is something that cannot be explained with simple words, as there are infinite meanings to life that we cannot even predict or think of.
I simply think that life is an infinite loop where one can never stop living of their own will. As I give a valid explanation for it. Some say that a person’s life ends when their time comes, but I think that people don’t simply die because they don’t want to live. I believe they die because of some particular reason, not just because of some lame old reason like old age. Because once people get old, they eventually die. That's what almost 99.9% of people in the whole world believe. But I cannot believe it, because if we put a person whose health records are good under very tight surveillance with the healthiest food and environment, then I think that a person could live up to 1000 years.
All the statements made above are from my point of view, and my experience of life, and based on what I have heard. Thus, the meaning of life and the meaning of living must be different for different people across the world, as we all know that the mindset and thinking of every single person in the world varies.
