Perception about Life

[supahmanross9]

Life is, indeed, so short. And, oddly enough, it is much shorter for those who find their lives meaningful, while it is too long for those who find their lives meaningless.
Couldn't it be that life is what meaning we put into it?
Now and then, I also ask what meaning has my life really. Often, I feel like I know, but at other times, my thinking looks like a useless mental exercise. Life is just so vast, so full of mysteries that before I can put meaning to my life, part of it is gone and the meaning I try putting on it is already partly exhausted.
Life, so it seems, is like dry sand slipping through my fingers. When I try to hold on to it very tightly, as if squeezing it, it slips away faster. But when I try to cast it away, it sticks to my hands. Sometimes, I think, to appreciate life best, one has neither to hold on to it tightly nor to let it go carelessly. The sand in the hourglass is life. It is better to let it flow freely, although not carelessly.
How we take life is often dictated by what priorities we have. And life, being so vast, offers everything which can be priority to us. A student ever so eager to get out of poverty would say, "Life will be meaningless if I don't finish my studies." A woman terribly in love would say, "Should I lose him now, life will be meaningless to me." and an alcoholic, trembling with the urge to drink, would be ready to give anything he has, even his dignity, for a bottle of liquor. Then there is this young ambitious businessman who desperately wants to make his first million before reaching forty. He easily forgets he has a wife, children and friends. Only the first million seems to matter.
But now, what are the things that last which could have real meaning in one's life? St. Paul has spoken so eloquently about them:

"If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

"Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away....At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love." {I Cor 13:1-3, 8-13}.

 

[malditaka09]

Life can be simple,depending on the way in which we view reality.There is no reason to see life as a constant battle for survival.Life does not have to be uncomfortable or boring.Not tiresome or competitive.It does not even have to be cumbersome or challenging.Life is what we make of it.It is a vision of what we believe it to be.

This concept may seem hard for people to grasp at first,but after seeing the full version of the facts it will come as no surprise to understanding.Deep down we have perhaps always understood that life is our own creation.There is a much more simple way of gasping what is around us.The details may not have surfaced as yet,but we are constantly searching for them.We search for a simple answer to life and it is right in front of our faces.

I will detail my understanding of how life is viewed and perceived.The concepts that I will focus around are things that i have gradually come to terms with through a series of process steps of understanding within my own life..I did not just one day think all these ideas up in some sort of vision or dream.Instead I gradually searched and learned.experience and involved myself in life.I eventually became the answer to my question.What i mean by this is that i gre with every experience in my life and became the answer to my questions.I am now living out my vision of a simple life,and can not now imagine how I lived any other way.The change in my life has been incredible,which is the reason why i felt this information should not just stay in my own mind.I want to share my ideas on how i view reality and came to terms with changing my life to suit a more simple vision.

I came across this 'simple life' concept when the world of realization jumped into my lap.Until that time i havd never really lived in what i now see as the real world.I instead lived in what i believed to be the real world.I live in fairyland where life had to be what i wanted it to be.Did I always get what I wanted?The answer is no.