why do we live?

A question I remember answering very vividly at certain turning points in my life. I call them turning points but they may have been changing points. The views have changed as 'i grew up' or 'matured'. At first I lived, only cos I wasn't dead. Quite a bitter thing to say, and that's how I was. Bitter, Pained, Hopeless. Later as living caught on, I actually began to enjoy it. I use the term 'living caught on' because it really happened that way. Somewhere during the day to day struggle to live, I stumbled upon the joy's of being alive. Recently I came across a statement which had a profound effect on my thinking 'despite the cost of living , it is still popular' (smile smile). So here's what I know now - We live because we are blessed. We live because that's the fundamental purpose we are born with. We live to experience. Because if we did not experience , we would not feel, and if we did not feel we might as well be dead.

Each individual life, in any form, experiences what is commonly known as 'SELF'. Each is unique, very individual. No individual's experience can be understood by the other completely, we can merely come close to it. Most of us go through life, trying to understand the other person. Very few understand them-selves. We live to experience exhilaration, magnanimity of life, awe inspiring perfection created by the infinite. We live to live the moment.

Honestly, I have realised that one can never learn from the other persons experience. So then there are these so called 'grown ups' who constanly live to force their experiences on others and get annoyed when they don't learn from it. How unfair is that? Being a teacher, I believe in allowing students to make their own choices, and let them learn from them. Eventually, some choices work and some don't. But there are greater chances of the student remembering the lesson for the rest of his/her life. Over the years I am more and more convinced of this theory. I have applied it and have always received positive results. I apply it to my self as well. And i must say, it always works. So one may actually say that we live to make choices and learn from the outcome. So we live to learn to live.

It's not a very easy question to answer, it's infact a tricky question. What's said, is really my individual opinion, and am sure many may feel otherwise. So it's not for me to know why we live, but it surely is for me to know Why I live!

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