LIFE

A short essay on Life, that I wrote while schooling. Please read through, patiently!

Life can be told as a long story written by God on a book called ‘the world’. Life consists essentially of many turns of events. At one time a person experiences adversities, while at another, happiness and gaiety are the substitutes. Thus, life does not, in any way, exist on an uniform, standard and stationary scale. It varies considerably, continuously.

Famous persons have described life in many remarkable ways. The great and well- known Elizabethan author, William Shakespeare, has described the earth and life by his saying, “All the world is a stage. And all the men and women merely players”. By the above maxim, he does not, really, literally mean that the world is truly a stage and that it fully consists of true actors or players. The real meaning lies deep inside the statement. William Shakespeare has cleverly compared the world with the stage and the people living on it with the players. The statement, surprisingly, seems to strike its intended meaning. On the stage are players who continuously undergo remarkable turns of events, of which both adversities and happiness are the chief constituents. When the life on earth is painstakingly compared with that of the play on the stage, they astonishingly seem to be similar in most respects, if not all.

Life, on being studied carefully, seems to have curiously innumerable varieties of hardships and mishaps. An innocent and only child who, all at once, looses both his parents in a mishap, is indeed without the slightest doubt, under the unimaginable mercy of cruel life. He may subsequently be torn down by this kind of life. Yet, he may see a bright future ahead of him and may suddenly be in a glorious moment, with an unexpected change of events. This is possible because a childless or passionate wealthy person may decide to adopt him as his son and gradually pave the way for him to the of heavenly future. Such is the curious changes of events that life possesses.

The adversities, mishaps and hardships are significant causes of crimes such as robberies, murders, rapes, riots, suicide, swindles and countless other violent commotions and chaos. Failure of a long expected success may change the mobile mind of a person, and thus, depress him to a great extent. Hatred for life may later carve him out into an unlawful person. The material world may tempt him to achieve his aims by using the short route method of lawlessness.

The optimistic sides of life are very pleasant to imagine. Millions of people in the world, especially, in the advanced nations such as the USA, Britain, France, Germany and Japan, just to mention a few, are dwelling in the lap of luxury, with homely cars, state of the art homes with ample facilities, the means to travel anywhere they like and nourish whatever food their taste buds desire!

In the poor and overpopulated parts of the world, life is nothing but a continuous path of thorns, along which people of these places have to walk. Such is the case of the way of life in countries like India, China, Nepal, Myanmar, Sudan and many others. Everyday, thousands of poverty stricken people in these nations go on living, and dying without food. Life is, thus, sometimes extremely cruel and sometimes incredibly pleasant.

The world, at this moment, is in the state of chaos. Wars, fights, riots, bomb attacks are taking forms all around the once peaceful world, if one can call it peaceful, what with some sort of calamities occurring always somewhere. The lack of jobs does not, in the least, favour the situation. The present age can be unhesitatingly said as an age of mass and strong competition. In such a situation, to obtain a stout and permanent foothold on the optimistic side of life, one should indeed work hard strenuously, compete courageously with others and win.

Life starts with the gradual birth of an infant and continues until his unavoidable, ultimate death. One should, therefore, to obtain an everlasting and prosperous position in life, commence putting his very best effort, the very moment he is matured enough to know this very, wide world.

How was the essay above? I got an 'A' for it! Ha ha! That encouraged me to write some more!