MAN-IFESTATION

I remember many years back, on the day of my parent’s 14^th wedding anniversary my grandparents were invited home. And that day I had a really special but a bit weird conversation with my grandpa.

So it started with a question put to me by my grandpa, which was something like this – “Did I actually know why I have been born in human form and not like any other form among millions of living creatures present on this planet??” I don’t know what made my grandpa ask such a question to a 12yr old. I did get puzzled hearing that, but I got an answer for that from him a while later. And that reply happened to cut down many questions which I would have had to face in the years to come.

Eat, Sleep and Reproduce. Three basic things required for the survival and existence of any kind of living form. We eat to survive, sleep to survive longer and reproduce so that forms like us continue the same. There isn’t anything unusual or special with these three processes, even the tiniest living creature you find any were around you will be carrying out this without their own knowledge. Then my grandpa asked is the human life really required when all you do is..eat..sleep!!You can even be a dog, rat, frog or even bacteria in that case.

Human life is to manifest our very own existence. We need to do something beyond the usual life functions. Man has been gifted with the most intelligent brain ever, with power of reasoning and discrimination. Our life should be worth of something..

We don’t  make our life great. None can actually do that. It’s just the normal things we do, which if good enough turn out to be known as something near to great.

Life isn’t just about surviving, it’s about living..and living your way. And your way here means nothing irrational but execution of humanity in the best possible way by us.

Doing things for self isn’t astray, but what life will that be when you look back and what you find is just you. What’s living when you weren’t the reason even for a single smile on other’s face. Doing something for our fellow beings, fellow creatures, fellow living forms, our country, our planet… gives some kind of immense satisfaction and it’s the real thing which gives meaning to our existence.

I was able to recollect those points very randomly. You may find it a bit messy, but it did affect my way of living. Removing barriers for my thoughts, concern, love…

And as I already said we are not here to make or do anything great. It’s just that when things are done with best effort and good intentions they automatically find a place in the outstanding deed list. The satisfaction which it brings along can even leave the noble prize or any such other award way behind.

And I don’t think there is anything wrong in giving meaning to our existence, at least trying for it...

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