We are born, we live and we die is one of the undeniable truths of this world. A truth that everyone knows and must eventually come to accept whether we want to or not, that’s one thing about the truth-it’s just that...the truth, period. There are so many other truths but this one truth ultimately decides how our lives we decide to shape and live our lives. It’s the fickleness and uncertainty of life that keeps us in check, knowing that we don’t have forever. Sometimes I wonder what does forever even mean, is there something on this earth that will be in existence forever. I sometimes wonder what will outlast us all, the human race. In my mind I have this indelible vision that the earth as we know it will eventually cease to exist, maybe by fire, floods and sometimes I even think heck world war 3 might just seal the nails on coffin but am sure just as we are born, live and die so will everything on this earth wither, disintegrate and disappear into one empty abyss..I think.
Anyone who uses the word forever in their words I think is usually being plain sarcastic and am guessing the guys who came with the word too are a bunch of sarcastic fellas. And it is because there is nothing like forever on this earth that we are forced to live each day like our last knowing that our happiness, joys and sorrows are constrained by our inability to control our ultimate fate. I sometimes wonder why God in his infinite wisdom made life too be so beautiful and sweet yet so short..Sigh! Anyway these words ring a bell? For all you epic movie enthusiasts:
“The gods envy us, they envy us
because we are mortal because any moment might be our last, everything is more
beautiful because we are doomed, you will never be lovelier than you are now,
we will never be here again”
Its due to the lack of this state called forever that most of the things we usually want to do with our lives eventually remain unfinished a truth reiterated by King Alexander that consequently then our greatest asset is time, a message put across satirically in his interment. Thus we start to do things with our lives that we think are important and are on top in our pecking order. Even those who sometimes say that they have done everything they set out to do and now live the rest to the upcoming Y generation, only say this because they know they can go no further even if they wanted to...Think about it? I imagine if let’s say hypothetically we existed for forever, would we strive and have that drive to push our imagination to heights that we didn't know existed before. I guess if the Wright brothers knew we lived forever they would have procrastinated inventing the airplane, would have technology have advanced this fast. Am guessing our quality of life would be relatively the same as a decade ago. It’s our competitive nature and inability to control our ultimate fate that pushes us to want to be better than the previous generation, but this competitive analogy is not fulfilling or lasting and eventually that’s why unfinished will always be the description of our lives.
Competition is what ultimately makes our lives to be unfinished. Like it or not our lives are constantly revolving about competition. Heck we even have a competition authority in Kenya and most other countries...and some people still tell you that life is not a race, that it’s not a competition. Whoever tells you this is most probably a flat out liar..Just scrutinize their lives and you’ll find out they have not been truthful to you about so many other truths too. Man was naturally born to be competitive but it’s also our Achilles heel. It’s always about who the best is, what is the best, whose building is the tallest, whose master piece is timeless...and what note…you get the flow now? It is due to competition that nothing is here to stay, your innovative idea will not transcend time…your most probably thinking that M-pesa is the epitome of all mobile transfer services but I bet you there is something unfathomable that will come and make a mockery of the mobile money transfer. To someone out there they know that mobile money transfer is unfinished. Think about it folks.
I bet for those who live to that ripe old age eventually ask themselves what could have I done differently but I guess more importantly they ask, could I have done more?
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