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Defining Life
by Manjit Handa, PhD
What is life? A feeling, a sensation or a cycle of breaths? Mostly these are given. It gets defined when we begin to collect from it. We gather, gather more, accumulate and hoard and store. Make room for more and stockpile more. Spread as much as possible and stretch more. Then we extend, swell, widen, broaden, multiply, increase, amplify, enlarge and augment. No problem with that.
Gluttony comes natural to us, let us be shameless and pick handfuls. There will never be another life and even if there was, who knows what that will be like. Carpe Diem, said the poet and he ain’t wrong.
What we gathered and hoarded is a matter of preference.
Life is water, taking the shape of the container, becoming the definition we like.
Still fumbling for the right one,
Manjit
Published on April 1, 2007 01:12 PM
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