Friday, May 05, 2006

Something Called 'Life'

Sometimes the self-help world tends to look at life as a problem to be solved.. That's natural, since so many people seek 'help' to solve a 'problem'.. But often the problem is that we can too easily fall into that trap of seeing life as a problem..

Life is an event to be experienced.. If we need help, it is to solve the problem of seeing life as a problem.. Self-help should be a means to free people to experience life..

We might figure out that life is not easy.. Is that true..? I think it is.. For starters, it gets pretty complicated to figure everything out, and by the time we get it all figured out, we've pretty much run out of life.. aww.. Sounds not too good.. Keep on reading..

Life does take effort.. enormous effort. There's so much more than just sitting back to enjoy the view.. Hmm.. but life is a joy.. Life is a thrill.. And it's so much more of a joy precisely because it is not easy.. Precisely because it's complex, with all sorts of wonderful twists and turns.. Precisely because it takes effort, and forces us to be part of it..

Not every challange is welcome, but every one has its purpose and most of them make life so much richer.. Life just would not be living if it was easy.. Break the chains.. Rush out into life and experience it.. Do something we've always dreamed of.. Do something we've never thought of.. Do something we've never done before.. Here's to a life full of challenges and opportunities..