Such Is Life

It's a wonderful thing how a photograph can hold more words than a complete essay sometimes. I guess that is just one of the many unclassed wonders of the world. A single photograph can hold a thousand different meanings to a thousand different people. Such is the extent of the relativity of human experiences and perception.

Looking at this picture, I see a seed planted, a seed grown, a seed nurtured, a seed protected, all the while facing a thousand unending perils along the way of life. I see it surrounded by weeds, trying to compete with it for food, water and nutrient, to stifle it out of existence as there's ever so much to share. Such is their destiny, but only because the will and the hands of the farmer say so.

I feel the relativity of their existence. To the farmer to whom all the power belongs, the plant is the "plant" just because, but to the cattle nearby, the grasses whose lives are ending in the interest of the farmer's plant are the cattle plant.

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Such is the conundrum of human existence. A seed planted, a seed emerges, and we are born. A seed nurtured and grown and we develop into children, then teenagers, youths and adults. Defenceless in a world filled with hostile like we weeds, we are protected by our parents until such times as we can defend ourselves. These threats come in so many forms. Bills, friends, strangers, neighbours, colleagues, the guy who wants to take your dad's job, diseases, paedophiles, kidnappers, and sometimes even the burden of the extended family. To the human born, these are threats, and like the weeds, we tend to forget that they are also the protectors and the protected of other people, and to those people, we are the weed. Such is life.

We strive to eliminate all threats just like the hardworking hands of the farmers, but like with weeds, they just come back again after some time. They are never truly gone.

Still, amid the perpetual threat, the weeds pose, some plants thrive, completely or for a time or intermittently. So it is for human life. Why knowing we will eventually succumb to one someday, we seek to thrive in the midst of it and live fully until we can.

Such is the conundrum we call our life. master it and live happily. Knowledge brings peace.

Thanks for your time.