Международный конкурс эссе для молодежи. Тема: "Что есть жизнь?" Организатор: японский Фонд мира Гои.
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Vladimir Kotov
It Is for You to Decide What Way of Life to Choose
Throughout history people have been looking for their place in the world and asking questions why the sun shines, why the grass is green, why the neighbor is luckier than me, what we live for and what life really means. Scientists often contrast life with death. I think that’s true because everything what any human being does in this world comes down to one thing: if we are not able to extend the time we are allowed here we at least can and should use it to the maximum extent possible.
To start with, it is difficult to challenge the fact that we are all different, have our own experience and own mind, everyone is going their own way. Some people think that their life must be devoted to complete repentance and faith in God. It is a spiritual way which leads in the end to the next level – heaven or hell. Others believe that life is an everlasting race for success. They are constantly looking for personal gain in everything and acting to go to the very top. They often forget about their nearest and dearest, don’t think about the soul and its safety. For others life is love that they give to their families and all people around them. The main task of those people is to make other people’s lives better.
For our pets to live is to be devoted to their owners who are main beings for them because they feed, love and take care of them. For plants to live means to exist, grow, give fruit. So their lives are a way from a seed to a producing plant or a tree and … to death.
We can’t say that any of them are right, but we can’t blame them for the opposite, either. The meaning of life is one of those things that cannot be unified, if only because we all feel, think and look at the same things differently, live unique lives, but they all agree on the same – in attempts to extend or at least make the most of our existence to achieve the goal. When something goes wrong with us we say life is unfair. Thus we mentally endow life with the divine property to influence the environment around us. Moreover, to do it meaningfully based on how we act. It’s funny how the way we don’t want to admit the fact that everything is so not because of an evil God, an unsuccessful horoscope for the day or fulfilled bad luck, but because that’s how it happened. You know, quite incredible accidents happen sometimes, but they are still accidents. But we are often afraid to face the truth, create theories to justify our failures. Then it’s not so scary to live in a world without meaning.
In conclusion, I would like to stress that first of all life is for each of us the Self inside us, the personality which is given the opportunity to choose our fate and from birth to fight with the environment that is sometimes cruel and meaningless. Or we can accept the world around us for the sake of understanding the unattainable goal that we have set for ourselves, the absence of which does not deprive us of the meaning of life, but only gives us a reason to think what is life. To realize this I would advise you to look back at your entire life path, then to look in the mirror and pinch yourself lightly. Think what will happen in a minute at least. You certainly will understand that life is all that was then, is now and will be once. It’s just a tiny moment between the past and the future. And we are living in the present. Enjoy your life!
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