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INSIGHT FOR LIVING: CHASING LIFE, IGNORING ITS MEANING

Man's primary assignment is to avoid death. This has been the trajectory of our lives from the day we are born until the day we refuse to wake up or manage to beat death for an extra minute, hour, or day.

If you pay attention, you’ll realize that all we live for is simply to stay alive. From birth, we naturally prioritize survival, fulfilling basic needs like food, water, and health care, and defending ourselves against threats like illness or danger. When we are sick, we halt everything to resist death from pulling us out of this space.

If our primary goal is merely to live, it seems irrational that we expend so much energy on activities that don’t contribute to our longevity or well-being. Hate, backbiting, bickering, and a passionate craving to see others suffer.

We should be looking at each other with sympathy because, in the larger scheme of things, we are all just trying to survive another day, hoping we are still here when tomorrow arrives. We live each day knowing that if we don’t wake up, it’s over. We are such fragile creatures, yet we are often blind to our vulnerabilities, wasting time on pursuits that don’t truly matter. We chase so much for so little, trying to make this one life worthwhile while dragging our stay here for as long as possible. We fight a battle we know we won’t win in the final analysis.

We chalk many victories, thousands of them, but death gets the one that matters, standing while we fall for good. Maybe we forget so easily that this one life with its uncertainties remains only what we have and need to make it worthwhile for ourselves and our fellow warriors.

Our collective existential struggles, coupled with the knowledge that we will eventually fall short and exit, should be enough to humble us. Yet, instead of humility, we forget ourselves and constantly try to prove that we are more than others, often what we are not.

The sad part is, we are so easily forgettable.

Life is a fragile crack, yet we walk through it intoxicated. The goal is glaring, but we are too high to notice it. We place so much in our way and end up not seeing the bigger picture.

We are indeed pitiful creatures, a confused lot with an overrated sense of self, despite understanding less than 5% of our own world.

Take it easy on your fellow human. Just like you, I’m only trying to stay alive for as long as I can.

One day, this person you so despise will be gone, and all the fights won't matter, why not keep the memories positive?

Don't forget that you'll be gone too when Death's selection process gets to your turn.

We are all on death role, line by line: be nice.

Credit: Kofi Kyei