What is true definition of Life?

Mahi Dhok
5 min readJul 8, 2021
Life is a form of magic with amazing surprises waiting to surprise you

Life is what every creature on Earth has. Understanding life with wh- questions would be easy, right? Asking questions like what is life? Why is life? It is so easy to ask questions that we can go on asking such questions endlessly. But wouldn’t it be too difficult to answer them? Lets find answer to these question and study life in depth.

Some people say “life is a game” and others “life is a bicycle.” Is life that easy to understand, with these examples? Sometimes we are not satisfied with our work, so we egret doing it at first place. But we should not forget that we are not machines to undo everything and redo it as per our wish. We just forget that each one of us is just a human, one in billions of the humans living on Earth. We watch everything around us but react as unseen for the happiness around us. The most common question asked is What is life? We often ask this question but don’t find answer to it.

Life is a gift given by God to us. We have accepted that gift but we always blame and point-out flaws in it, are we doing this right? Life is a collection of amazing surprises which are waiting for their turn to become true. Life is a fish which is trying to fly and this ability of thinking such complex things and making them happen is a gift by God, which are two main parts of key. Many times after analysis of world around us, we often compare ourselves with others which creates a gap between us and others. Due to this we rely on the fact that “Everyone have their own capabilities and qualities,” so there are two possibilities that can come true in this case, 1] Either you would sink in sorrow, accepting the misunderstood fact that your capabilities are less and you don’t have talent or 2] You would become more cool and leave hard work saying “If I don’t have capabilities then why should I work hard? For nothing?”

We always say how beautiful this world is, but we do not accept the fact that how wonderful the life is. We have consciousness to understand fundaments of this world and have memory to remember the people. We have everything that is responsible to make us intelligent creatures. ‘Life is incomplete, we need to add something more to it,’ I have heard this sentence thousands of time; but think, are we cooking a dish to add more masala to make it more tasty? Don’t forget life and humans are nature’s creations and nature never creates something incomplete. Life is to enjoy and to explore this world. Don’t forget the fact whatever we have in our life is a gift and we never complain about a gift, right?

We sometimes find there are people better than us, but we forget that we are unique. I wholeheartedly believe that God has sent us on Earth for some reason. Fulfilling life purposes is the true essence of life. For once close your eyes and remember the situation where you were very clam and tension free now seeing that situation again and again in your mind, do your work you would end the work on time with no excess tension and stress. Satisfaction, happiness and comfort is what we think life is, but life is beyond this. Life consists of numerous things which if I wrote here it won’t be an article it will become a book.

Most important situations in life are victories and defeats or ups and downs. Many times we don’t realize that defeats teach more than victories. Not taking defeats on head and victories as tags is the real way to deal with them. Realization is the part of key to life, as things happen when we realize the situation around us. Most of the times we realize something but ignore it, then we cry for our defeats instead listen to inner peace and think what you have to do in our life. If you get answer to it, it will be awesome but if not, do not end the search mission. At end of the day, if there are victories then there would be defeats, if there are downs there would be boosting ups as well.

Initially we did not learn to walk in a day, nor to read. Experience and observation is the core of life which makes up another two parts of key. Reliance and laziness are two viruses which affect our computer. Whenever we start solving puzzles to build up our key these two components distract us from doing this. Whenever we think of past we remember these mistakes and failures instead of victories and achievements, do you know why? Because whenever we do mistakes or fail in doing some work our brain feels sad and embarrassing. Our brain in programmed in such a way that it does not like to be sad or embarrassed, hence it stores all those memories in long term memory storage and whenever we are going to do something related to the mistakes done before, we automatically remember the mistakes and try avoid doing them again.

Programming of brain is really complex. To find real definition for life we need to find the real definition for our brain. Because at the end brain is CPU and whatever it understands it would be true for it.

I would say “Life is a time span between birth and death where we try to understand this world and be capable to walk with it.”

Life is not just to live but also to enjoy. Don’t ruin ‘today’ for ‘tomorrow’ similarly, don’t ruin your tomorrow by not planning it today. You must be thinking, everywhere in this article I have mentioned ‘parts of key,’ what is this key about? This is key of life. We don’t get a ready made key, instead parts of the keys are handed over to you, that would be connected together to form a right key to unlock the true life. This parts are around you just the wait is to find and connect them.

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Mahi Dhok

I am a student passionate about writing. I write stories, articles and poems based on my own experiences and views.