My views on LIFE

Most people just simply say life is just for living, while some say live for today. Our life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark. Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life. We have to live each moment as it's the last in order to fully understand and enjoy life to it fullest. Mainly, because our lives are like sewers. What we get out of it depends on what we put into it.

Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. That picture is a person who is real and willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different. Now I understand that life is a progress and not a station, and that it's a succession of lessons that we must live to understand and realize that life should be lived and not controlled.

It's funny how many people are always getting ready to live but are never living. As a result many people die with the music still in them and reason for this is that when they are ready to live before you know it time runs out. Many of us fulfill the object of our existence by asking a question we cannot answer and by attempting task we cannot achieve. Too often have we set ourselves up for failure and when we do so we overlooked our true potential. Too many of us are busy thinking about security instead of opportunity. We seems to be more afraid of life than we are of death. We are living in a time when our world is of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. How are we to live a moral and compassionate existence when we are fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when we find darkness not in our own culture but within ourselves? If there is a stage at which our lives becomes truly adult, it must be when we grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived amidst such paradox. We must live in contradiction, because if all contradiction is to be eliminated our lives will collapse. Certainly there is no simply answer to some of the great pressing questions. We must continue to live them out making our lives a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Some of us go through life alone thinking that it's better that way. So we withdraw ourselves and stop living the life we are given to live. But what we must understand is that a person who tries to live their lives alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart will wither if it does not answer another heart. His mind will shrink away if the only echoes he hears is of his own thoughts and in that he will find no other inspiration. An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Most of us use religion negatively when we try to find a way to not live our lives. What we don't know is that life becomes religious whenever we make it so. When some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed and when some task is well done. It is in our lives and not words that our religion should read. True religion is real living, living with one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Life is chance for us to grow a soul and in the end it's not the years in our lives that count, it's the life in the years. All of us have sweetness in our hearts and that is what helps us to go on. It is towards that we run when we feel torn and worn out. It is how we spend ours days that reflects how we live our lives. Love life and life will love you back, love people and they will love you back. What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness. But in order to obtain such happiness we must be grateful. Gratefulness is the key to life's happiness that we hold in our hands. Because if we are not grateful we will not be truly happy, because we will always want to have something more or something else. Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we have a life by what we give.

Life is like onion, you peel it layer by layer at a time and sometimes it makes you weep. I think that taking life seriously is that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever must be achieve it to be done with the fullest exercise of passion, vision, pain, fear and sorrow. The irony of man's condition is the deepest need to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation. Life is what we make of it and we should consider every day lost on which we do not dance at least once. It's faith in and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living and as Albert Einstein once said "only a life lived others is a life worthwhile".

Have a happy 2009 and I hope everyone will live life to it fullest. All the crime and violence in the world and Jamaica is enough to last a lifetime. So lets not add to the equation, lets take a different approach. When angry count to 10 and if very angry count to 100. "A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger" Proverbs 15:1.