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What is Life?
I've been thinking a lot lately and asking myself the question What is life?
Life is a living cell, or many cells, millions of them working together to produce life.
It originated in water vapor some 4.7 billion years ago.
It is living matter.
It produces through fertilization.
It's DNA and RNA and twenty amino acids.
It's evolution
It is a journey from conception to birth, through childhood, adulthood and old age.
It is a growing and learning experience.
It falls in between birth and death.
It is filled with joy and sadness.
It requires lots of love, patience and understanding.
It can beat us down with disappointments.
It can fill our lives with special things, and take away those special loved ones.
It makes us learn and sometimes fight to survive, and we all know with Grief, there
definitely is a struggle there.
Science even speculates that what they call anomalies may be what they call
peculiar chemistry, or life itself.
Many people have struggles, many different struggles with life, reality, emotions.
I believe that everything that we experience in our lives is something that puts us to
a test.
I'm just like everyone else.....one small grain of sand, and one big question mark as I
gaze out at the stars at night.
We have to make the best of everything while we live our lives!
I think of my sadness as my journey through grief teaches me new ways of life,
and I always remind myself what my mother always said, "take one day at a time"
And what my wife always said, "If anything ever happens to me, go on with your life"
And when you think about it, life does go on.
It's everywhere you look.
Life is not just all animals and plants.
Life is 10 million animal species, and several hundred thousand plant species.
Life is a system that allows itself to grow and reproduce.
I don't believe in an end to our being.
Death may bring an end to our physical existence, but what happens to our love, our hearts,
our longing for love and all of the love we gave during our lives?
Seriously, it can't just be like the end of a play where the curtain falls and the seats all empty out.
Life is the grand stage, and stop and think for a moment, while we think that we are on the stage, maybe
we're all in the audience and just watching the show!
I can remember several months ago when grief was the ultimate bad trip for me...I couldn't wait for bedtime
to come, because there was so much peace in sleeping!
Maybe we are just here to dream?
Peace to you all,
Your friend Michael
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Comment by Amanda Ab on November 9, 2011 at 1:10pm
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Hi, Michael
There are ok days, and not so ok days for me lately. I use to wait for my husband to come home from work every evening at 8:15 p.m. on the dot. Now, 8:15 p.m. comes and goes and my husband is not walking through that door.
Winter is here and very much depressing, I can say. The change of weather, the rainy days, just make me feel so much more alone and missing my husband a lot more, than what I am already missing him. He enjoyed this type of weather so very much. He enjoyed just staying at home, watching a movie, and playing with our son. I now, find myself, going through these days of rain, alone at home. Holidays approaching, and just so much wish, I can just "fast forward" those days, and go on to other days. Just the fact that many families are out there enjoying and looking forward to all of these special days to come, makes me a bit jealous, in a good way. However, I remember, I too was one of them just last year. When all of my in laws came over for Xmas and New Year's Eve. We had so much fun. My husband made it fun. He was trully the "life of the party". He was real carismatic and would light up a room with his presence. I am finding that my son, Sebastian, is like that too. Everywhere he goes, he quickly finds a new friend to play, and gets everyone to soon adore him.
Thanks for reading, Michael. Oh and I like the idea of the "Aerobic Grief Workout Video". I will be one to buy it.
Amanda
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Comment by MIchael A Ballard on November 8, 2011 at 8:44pm
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Thank you Amanda and hope things are going pretty good for you.
I somehow find a way to be courageous throughout this mystery world of grief!
And what a mystery it all is!
I used to come home from work to my wife and two kids, and now it's just my boy and me.
Where did everybody go??
My step-daughter wanted to live with her grandma.
Everyday that I wake up it is a new challenge, and I am basically ready to kick it in the ass!
I think I'll make an Aerobic Grief Workout Video.....hey, they have just about everything else, why not huh?
Take care,
Michael
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Michael, great to hear you. We have not heard from you in a while, and we need your gift of writting on these forums. Oh and by the way, Great answer to the definition of what life really is!
Thanks for posting.
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