Life is Beautiful
‘A thing of beauty is joy forever.’ An age-old saying and you have probably heard it a million times by now. So, why am I telling you this again?
The world record holder for being the oldest living woman died at the age of 115 a few days ago. She was suffering from various physical ailments but still wanted to live. The most common blessing is, “Wish you a long life.” Almost all the patients on their death beds plead, “Doctor I do not want to die, please save me.”
Do the arguments in the last two paragraphs relate? Yes, of course. One wants to cling to life for ever. Why? Because it gives him joy - joy forever. We can thus, substitute ‘life’ for ‘a thing of beauty’ in the saying. And then, by comparing the two equations a safe conclusion can be dawn, ‘life is beautiful’. Hence proved.
But, is it only this mathematical calculation that tells us that 'Life is Beautiful'? Of course not! Even if I could not have derived this relationship, we knew it is true.
All of us entered this world without our consent but are we not glad for this? Like a good buffet of food, life lays out dishes of all tastes for us. Like any beautiful bouquet, it has flowers of varied colours and fragrances. The love and the hate, the joy and the misery, the enthusiasm and the depression, all remain with us like the two sides of the same coin. This is the beauty of life. You learn to value the daybreak while basking in the glory of the night.
A funeral might make you feel low but the birth of a new one is sure to cheer you up. That’s the beauty. That’s life. Like a charming smile on a wrinkled face, it never fails to make you love itself.
1 comment:
Alright, that women might have hit the Guinness book but, there are many people who commit suicides. I wish anyone prepares him/herself for suicide would read this first. Bet, would change his/her mind.
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