Accept Life as it unfolds

“I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all, it is just about over.” Have you ever heard anyone saying these lines with tear-filled eyes? What is the point in thinking too much forward when you are unsure of the very next second? Life is what we make it, always has been and always will be. As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. Life is like a blanket too short. If you pull it up, your toes will rebel. If you yank it down, your shoulder will start shivering. But if you can manage to draw your knees up, you can pass a very comfortable night.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. There is nothing more disheartening than fainting just inches short of the finishing line. Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. If we have the will to take some pain to reshuffle the lines, it may then become a beautiful symphony which soothes everyone’s ears. Life is nothing, but a foreign language which is mispronounced by all the people. With great determination and proper training, we can master this ever-so beautiful language.

Let me quote an incident from the life of the world famous scientist Thomas Alva Edison. It was his great ambition to build a laboratory wherein his team could continue researches. Though he realized the dream, one day the lab caught fire. His life’s dream was going up in flames. One of his sons ran to him to be with his father at that moment of loss. Edison shouted to him, “Go, call your mother, let her come and see this fire. She may never see a fire like this!” These words are good enough for us to understand why certain people are like hydrogen filled balloons which keep going high up in the air. As a matter of fact, great men are made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. They leave footsteps too tough to follow. But if we somehow manage to run a little distance in their shoes, that will definitely take us to the pinnacle of success.

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. But to enjoy the show, certain things are to be kept in mind and to be followed. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. To live remains an art which everyone must learn and which no one can teach. The secret of life is just to hang around until you get used to it. Do the best you can and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others. Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. So stop wondering how to live, start living the way your conscience lets you to and accept life as it unfolds.