What is Life ?

|By Shweta Moghe |

Some say its a journey, some say its a blank canvas that you can paint . However none of these definitions in anyway satisfy the teenager in me . I see life as race when I am being forced into doing something that I do not want to do . I see life as a bucket full of opportunities when I find things that interest me . I see life as a wonderful gift given to me by the divine soul when only good things happen to me on the contrary I see it as burden when things go downhill . Well, what do I know ? I am still a kid . No matter how many number of books I read on this topic / genre of life , I never seem to fully understand this complex subject . One day I decided that I am going to sit and think and think and think until I am capable enough of answering the question I desperately wanted answers to. It took hours before it struck , Your life is not a canvas , its not a gift , its not a journey . In fact , it is a living , breathing , walking example of who YOU are and what you make of it. For example, life is like a bucket of clay , you can make statues with it , play with it, sell it away or do anything with it for that matter of fact . What ever you do with that bucket of clay is what you make of yourself . Just to elaborate with another example, people say life is a canvas right ? But, who says it necessarily has to be a canvas ? You have paints, yes . You have to paint your own picture, YES ! But my point is , who says life has to be a canvas ? You can paint on the damn grass and be proud of it because its who you are and it makes you happy. Through all that , I think I finally figured out what I want my life to be or how I see my life . In the end , That’s what Important . How I see my life. I see life as something that was given to me for a reason , and I want to live the next 45 years of my life finding out what that reason is. It can be something as simple as helping a friend , or raise an orphan dog . Teenagers Like myself often feel lost on this so called journey of life . I am no better . I am lost . But I am never going to give up I am going to live my life out till the end . I am not afraid of failures, I am afraid of giving up . in my opinion , That's how one should be . Before I go , I’d like to quote Dr. Christina Yang From Grey’s Anatomy ” Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here, and don't give a damn what anyone thinks."