What If..
Has there ever been a time when you sat to reminisce on your whole life? What if who you hoped to be was always you? What is all the hustle and bustle for? What if those things you really need are cheap and ubiquitous? Are you just brought on earth without your permission to toil each day till you drop?
I feel like kids ask the most sensible and eye opening questions in the most nonchalant way. Sometime back, I was in the midst of kids ranging from five to seven years old. It was something I volunteered to do because I love being around kids. They were all engaged in their colouring activity when one of them randomly asked
"So what is life all about?"
I was supposed to be the grown up in their midst. The one with all the answers they could possibly need but at that point, I had none. Is life indeed a random walk? I keep asking.
That day, there were numerous follow-up questions but I found a way to wriggle out without giving a direct answer. What if I gave them a wrong answer and they grow up later on to realise that my answer was wrong? What if my answer misguided them?
The song "stupid Deep" is usually my go-to song for such reflective moments. The song doesn't give a direct answer either but it helps one get a different perspective when asking questions about life. Goosebumps is something many people get by just listening to this masterpiece.
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I like music and on the top of my favourites list is Jon Bellion. His songs are unique in their own way and more often than not, I resonate with most of them.
There are a whole lot of questions about life. As humans, we are curious about the littlest of things. It could be how water gets into a coconut or why you have never seen what you look like; just your reflection. Well some people choose to chase these answers, the rest just live their lives to the fullest, with no iota of bother. Whichever category you fall into, that is probably the best category for you.
I'm one very curious human. I like to know the reason behind everything–I think that's why I wanted to become a detective at some point in my life:) However, I always have it at the back of my mind that some questions are best left unanswered.
On different occasions, I've thought about what life would be like if we had everything we need at our beck and call. I guess everyone would be lazy. No one would want to work a 9-5 job. No one would have to put up with the nasty attitude of their neighbour. No one would sure as hell want to stress themselves. You can go anywhere, at any time and get whatever you want. Just you in your little bubble. Sounds perfect! But the disadvantages would definitely outweigh the advantages.
Recalcitrant, chaos, civil unrest, dispute, name it. These would all be the order of the day. Behind the question and mystery are reasons and I like to believe that these reasons are good ones. However, these are just some of my thoughts. I would like to hear your thoughts on these too, if any:)
This hits differently, because truly what if.
We have so many questions left unanswered and this is my first time listening to this song, now I'll be adding it to my favourite song list.
Jon is one artist that knows his onions. You would love his music.✨
Yeah, I love his songs, especially Hands of God but I am adding this to my playlist.
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Life does not have a definite answer, theres a lot of 'what ifs', this means that life is full of uncertainties.
What if we had everything we needed at our beck and call, it will make a lot of people lazy, and not being active will definitely lead to the weakness of the physical body, depression and even death.
But, what if not?
Alot of questions about life cannot be answered and that's what makes life so unpredictable.
Jon Bellion is such a great musician and a deep thinker as well, I love this track alot and I'm sure going to be playing it all day long. Thanks for sharing this beautiful writeup.
Thank you for coming around Iska😇. I feel that the uncertainties of life is what makes life worth living. Without them, there wouldn't be a sense of purpose.
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! help(no space) to get help on Hive. InfoThis song by is beautiful, and I have asked my self some of these questions you have always asked. If everything we wanted was given to us at our beck and call, things will be good, for just a few minutes, max an hour or two before everything will crumble. Now you've made me think again today.
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"The purpose or meaning of life", or "What life is about", doesn't have an answer, I believe. That's why you couldn't have made an error when trying to answer these questions imposed by the kids. Plenty of scientists and philosophers tried to create an answer, but these are all subjective, especially those ideas, theories and models by philosophers. I suppose life is what one makes of it. Maybe, someday, we find the answer. Perhaps not though. But when we do, I wonder if we will be more happy after finding the answer. Perhaps life is what it is, in all its mysteries.
This is something I always think about. What if we get answers that we do not like? Then we would live the rest of our days regretting.
I think we should take life as it comes.
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Agree 🙃 Even what if we are ok with the answer? We may still see the mystery of life fading away because of the answer. In some books of mine, the meaning of life = 42. As simple as Douglas Adams made it in his books 😂
Some books of yours? You're an author 🥺?
I just did a brief research on the 42 and it makes so much sense from that perspective.
nope, books more as a figure of speech 🙃
42 is awesome, early day AI that was given such a difficult question came up with this answer. The reason: the peeps in the book should've given more context to the question they asked.