About Life

"Life is funny, I’m finally getting the jokes and learning to laugh out-loud." Ray Basile

Life is a four letter word.
Life is what I'm living right now.
Life, worth everything I put into it.
Life is what I wake up for.
Life, one change at a time.
Life, catch up if I start moving too fast for you.
Life, I want more of that.
Life don't fail me now.

Today a friend who works as a life coach lead me in a fun exercise she uses to get a glimpse into a persons belief system. It's a spontaneous way of drawing out how we view life.

The exercise was simple, she wrote down a word on a piece of paper and asked me to complete eight sentances with that word at the start. I had no clue what the word was going to be. She told me to say whatever came to mind, off the top of my head and she would write down my answers. She passed the paper to me, I turned it over and it read;

I blurted out eight sentences that began with the word life, not giving them too much thought. I found the experience to be exhilarating. No one sentence was right or wrong but all of them were truly revealing. They were all a unique reflection of my world view.

I had not planned to try and define life, at least not today. I was actually preoccupied making other plans when life took me by surprise. I was interrupted by the idea of life as it came clearly into view. I had no intention of slowing the pace of my day to find life starring back at me, in my own terms. Eight spontaneous sentences, pulled out of one word. For me, that's life.

I encourage everyone to experience life in a brand new way. Start now.

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon

Comments

[Disha]

Hey true!!!

Life is all whats going on and not what happened or what is going to happen.Amazingly what we lack in life is sometimes our desires.We don't have courage to gather our wishes together to stand upto the level of life.

Out of your 8 sentences I doubt one that life should stop me if I am going too fast because we need to catch up with life and not vice versa...at least this is true in present scenario.:)

[Debi Eckenroth]

Life is accidental AND intentional. Life should never be psychoanalyzed. Life can only be eternal WITH/IN/AS a body. Life has a middle name, "if". Life began before we were born. Life began before time was ever measured. Before life there was nothing but time.

[Latisha]

Great post. Love the John Lennon quote.