what is LIFE?
 
Life is not a science, we make it up as we go along.                                 Al Hirschfeld

                                                                  
"What is life" a youth asked his father who works as a butcher. He answered "I do not know very many things about life. When I was eighteen my father told me, son marry a beautiful girl, enjoy family life, bring up children and let your sons and daughters also marry and enjoy. I am doing those things ". " What is life", a college student asked the teacher. The teacher answered, "it is difficult to define life in one sentence. There are different views about it. But we can say surely that life started when the first microscopic unicellular being evolved into existence. Afterwards life went on evolving into more and more complex multicellular forms, big in size, like dogs and humans. We all should try to live disciplined lives ".

            
                                                                  " What  is life"  a person asked a priest. His reply was,  "my child, life is God's blessing. God creates it  and takes back it.
Live as God says". A student of philosophy asked a savant (or guru),  "what is life and how to live a good life"? The wise man answered,  "what is inherent in a
fresh, green leaf and what drives it to grow, when it is attached to a branch, is life. What an yellow, old leaf loses when it dries and falls to the ground, is life.
Living can be complex or simple depending on background situations. But basically, one should live an
 INTEGRATED, within oneself, and  BALANCED  LIFE
 with others and environment ".
                                                                   First one is a common man's populist opinion. Second one is of an educated teacher. Third is a spiritual or religious opinion based on beliefs or traditions. Fourth is a wise person's wisdom, taking into account different backgrounds of habitats, professions, faiths and cultures. There are other valid and acceptable views about life. See here a long list of quotations on life and living by writers, leaders, scientists etc. with some comments by the author.
 
                                                                   The word ' life' is used by  the four different persons with different meanings or depths, due to their different perceptions
or  ' views and ways'. (See a thick dictionary also for various meanings).  
Life can be defined  as the inborn capacity to grow, maintain, reproduce and  sustain till death. All living beings exist to reproduce itself and to produce something to enrich the environment or land where they live. Take the case of a bird; it reproduces and produces manure  for the land. See an elephant; it reproduces and produces manure and food for other beings. Similarly are  cows, goats, camels etc.
 
                                                                   How the first living being as unicellular life(or some other way) originated is still not precisely known. Scientifically seeing, life in its innumerable forms from single celled bacteria to millions-celled dogs and birds, evolved over billions of years. Humans evolved to be at the top of the tree of evolution. Later over millenniums, developed (evolved is the right word), language, writing and teaching, leading to modern times and different groups of humans with various life styles.
                                                                   Various types of humans  have different  aspects  of life and living like, (1) natural or environmental, (2) familial, (3) professional, (4) social and cultural and (5) political  and national. Giving environmental  aspects or habitats priority, one can see different types of  people like, foresters(fully natural life or GREEN LIFE), tribals, villagers and urbanites (very much artificial).  Groups like rich, poor, farmers, intelligentsia etc.  form depending upon backgrounds of  wealth and profession. In big cities one can see other types like, cosmopolitans, slum dwellers, super rich  etc. Now it is  clear that various types of people like tribals, urbanites etc. evolved due to the unavoidable influences of  environment,  profession,  culture etc.

                                                                   I wrote earlier that  birds, elephants,cows, goats, camels etc. live and produce something.  Contrastingly, a huge part of  humanity  is now  busy  with  producing  pollutants  of  different  types  which poison  the  Earth  and cause  destructive changes  to  the environment and atmosphere.  (Climate change is perhaps the most talked, discused and written about subject now).  These destructions are not worth mentioning  on this page. See  the page  
GREEN  LIFE  for some details and some solutions.       
 
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