Life is doing something meaning. Life is not about possibility--anything can be done. Life is about making decision--deciding to do something that moves you.
Today while I was browsing I came across this small story which answers what is life? in a very little clear words.
Once upon a time,
there was a girl who could do anything in the world she wanted. All she
had to do was choose something and focus. So one day she sat down in
front of a blank canvas and began to paint. Every stroke was more
perfect than the next, slowly and gracefully converging to build a flawless
masterpiece. And when she eventually finished painting, she stared
proudly at her work and smiled.
It was obvious to the clouds and the
stars, who were always watching over her, that she had a gift. She was
an artist. And she knew it too. She felt it in every fiber of her
being. But a few moments after she finished painting, she got anxious
and quickly stood up. Because she realized that while she had the
ability to do anything in the world she wanted to do, she was simply spending
her time moving paint around on a piece of canvas.
She felt like there was so much more in
the world to see and do – so many options. And if she ultimately
decided to do something else with her life, then all the time she spent
painting would be a waste. So she glanced at her masterpiece one last
time, and walked out the door into the moonlight. And as she walked,
she thought, and then she walked some more.
While she was walking, she didn’t notice
the clouds and the stars in the sky who were trying to signal her, because
she was preoccupied with an important decision she had to make. She had
to choose one thing to do out of all the possibilities in the world.
Should she practice medicine? Or design buildings? Or teach
children? She was utterly stumped.
Twenty-five years later, the girl began
to cry. Because she realized she had been walking for so long, and that
over the years she had become so enamored by everything that she could do –
the endless array of possibilities – that she hadn’t done anything meaningful
at all. And she learned, at last, that life isn’t about possibility –
anything is possible. Life is about making a decision – deciding to do
something that moves you.
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