Life-In This Context!

Qayoom Shiekh

Man is not born alone. With him comes the life, and life is not an organized journey, but full of intricacies. Childhood is the momentous beginning. A child with a feeble mind takes the things as they come. As he grows to an adult, his reason also grows as well. Besides life, a man begins his journey with other human beings, same by structure, but different by intent. 

As the journey takes the forward step, the man begins losing the momentous days of childhood. They (childhood memories) stood with him, but a distant dream. The complexities of life start making inroads. The journey is unexplored. Men have come to the world for centuries. Everyone’s journey is different, though plying in the same road.  If one is experiencing a safe passage, the other experiences obscurities. If one is full of happiness, the other, at the same time, is full of sorrows.

No one can live the life of another. Everyone has to live his or her life. Any moment of life a man passes, is gone forever. We as human beings may enjoy certain powers over other creatures, but we too have our limitations. The biggest limitation is that we can never bring back the moments, good or bad. We can only cherish those moments.

A child while coming out of mother’s womb might be wishing to go back to his place of origin, but life is born before a creature and it always pulls him forward. In this context, life may be called cruel, but it is only doing its job. A man would have been a child since the birth, had not life pulled him to adolescence, youth, old age and finally to death. Life may pull a man into dependable stages of childhood and old age, but it also makes him to experience an independent life of youthfulness.