Life is Everything, Life is Nothing | #WE200

Good morning dear friends from all over the globe, Hive and in the Weekend Experience Community. A great weekend begins with, first, an amazing mind and a good plan for the weekend. Today, I have decided to give an insight into what life means to me and my purpose on earth.

Life means a lot to me, but one thing I have come to settle with is this definition I have given to life.

Life is everything you make it to look like. Getting to hold every space and experience as your consistuency.

This above is my definition of life. Life begins from conception. When an individual is formed as a fetus in his/her mother's womb, life has begun. In case you do not believe so, let me make it a little clearer. In that form, one still struggles to survive, to live within the wall of that environment called the womb. It becomes more competitive when they are more than one person in that womb.

As such, creating your world out of what is already existing gives you what you want from life. You can be mistaken but not guilty and may not have done anything wrong but life just happened.

Many people who do not understand this concept may begin to think that their case is worse, especially when they do not get what they expect from certain ventures or have unpleasant experiences.

I have come to the understanding that life comes to us in different ways, sizes, situations, circumstances and experiences. Some of which are very pleasant, or nearly pleasant or unpleasant or very unpleasant. Everyone has the choice to navigate life's ups and downs in the way they seem best.

We all must know that life is not a bed of roses. There is always a time for everything in life. This time of a thing is a natural phenomenon. There are times when you will be moody or happy, there are times when you have enough or even broke, a time when your whole world seems to be collapsing or when you have your defenses up. All this happens because one has life.

To have life means to be alive. Anyone who is not living cannot be talking about life.

Live Life Because You Won't Come Out Of It Alive

Here, one thing we should all know is that everyday that passes, draws one closer to the day he or she will be gone. Gone to rest. Life will go and never return to such a person again.
This is why, no matter how long an individual lives, he will surely be gone someday. Everyone should therefore live a life that they won't regret. Since no man lives forever, it is then important that we make do with our short time here.
Each time I look back on the lives and times of some great philosophers like Aristotle, Plato, Herodotus, Albert Einstein and many others who have left this world, I just remind myself that life happened to them.
One thing that is evident after the lives of these philosophers is that their theories and inventions live after them.

My Purpose In Life

I have realized that life is a beautiful but complex journey which involves growth, relationships, learning, self-discovery and challenges. In spite of these, one can make something good out of this tough life.
In the African parlance, it is said that:

The noise in the market square should not deprive one of the need to buy what to eat.

As we have all come to this world, good or bad, our time here leaves a print that will outlive us. This is why I have a resolute intention to create a world whoere care and love can be shared beginning from my immediate environment.

To impact my immediate world, I have decided not to compete with anyone. Competition breeds rivalry. Hence, it makes the world more chaotic than what it already is. Rather, I have decided to lend a helping hand to children who do have the opportunity to have a place to call home. I have been on this for over ten years and it is already yielding results. Though funding the project may be tough, we get support from well meaning individuals who have seen our originality and how far we have come.

Life is unique to every individual and can be filled with sadness and joy and everything in between.

• All images used in this work are mine.