The Art Of Living

Why do we get up in the morning? What is the motive that pushes us to enjoy every sunrise and makes us endure every sunset?

Lina Hanna Hanna

We go on through life in an automotive way where we lead an existence of a repetition of repetitions in an ongoing way. To exist is not to live; there is a huge difference between an existing and a life… When we exist we are in mere apathy, receiving what life throws at us and maintaining the status quo without even having the stamina to alter or affect any event in our lives, a total receptive mode, a receptive that stagnates us, we become just an audience and never actors or performers in our own life story.

Life is of delicate nature, it is the art that uses the incidents and experiences of life as paint, and how we deal with them, how we interact and shape them as a canvas full of different colors as a painting, colored by pain, deception, misery, misfortune, joy, labor, enthusiasm, passion, recreation, and all the states of our psyche being.

It is not about what is the meaning of life it is about how to live life witnessing a miracle with e each passing day as artists, by truly appreciating and understanding life revealing and decoding its connotation through its visible forms, making the implicit forms of the soul, explicit in our way of life.

Life is always a struggle; it requires our warrior skills as well as our artistic abilities to just learn the dancing steps to the ever changing mysterious tunes playing in life’s background in a cosmic dance. It is either we follow life s rhythm, thus getting along just fine or going against it and getting deceived at every trial. It is not about what happens to us , it is what we decide to do with what happens to us, every occurrence is educational , pain teaches us and so does joy, we learn how to be flexible with the tides of our existence, and in spite of all the horror or cruelty we suffer from sometimes, life remains interesting ; to be able to observe how vast and immense our world is , the inner world as well as the outer world is a blessing and a gift. To be able to contribute even if on an individual level to the universe is magic itself…

Every person on the face of the earth is important we are not just numbers, we each of us have a role to play on the theatre of life, we are linked all of us through the cycle of birth and death. No one’s existence is a hazard or mere coincidence, there is a plan for everyone to serve, we cannot always get a grasp on the why or how but life happens every day and the mystery of life itself is appealing and inviting to live more and exist less, it always goes on whether we want it or refuse it. So why resign to reality when we have all what it takes to change it and adhere to it. We are powerful we hold all the keys within our deepest deep, we are born to be victorious , we are the only species that has a perception of its entity and its nature, a plant does not know it is a plant or what makes it a plant , an animal does not know he is an animal , a planet does not know it is a planet, so even if nature can destroy us it does not know of its destruction but we do, we have a perception of our future, of our becoming what we were not a day earlier.

How are handling this knowledge? What are we doing to be participants in how our life will be?

Are we in a constant action to make the best of it? Or are we just watching things as they occur with lack of interest and an absent wish to change anything whatsoever?

Let us not life’s ennui get to us, let us rise after each fall stronger than before … let us respond to what our inner world is whispering to us, it is a shame to be alive without any ability to feel passionate feelings or emotional response to what takes place in everyday we live.

Embrace revolution if you must; change the equation of your life by changing how you are leading it. Nothing is fixed in a way that an act of bravery will not move.

Let us have the joy of challenge, and the challenge of survival… let us sway between the wisdom we gain and the madness that entitle us to take delights in life pleasures as they pass; it is the captured moments that makes our existence a life, moments of high voltage or low power. We cannot expect to maintain the same level of everything at all times in our life, it is not static, it is a flowing river that washes away the old and bring to surface the new. So it is okay if we feel powerful at one time and weak at others, this is life, we switch and turn from one emotion to another as a sign of maturity and rejuvenation.

To miss out on life is death, complete rest is death, life is motion and action, it is a climb and a collapse between what we want and what we have, and once we erase that fear of life we will reach the very heart of life.

There is always a chance to refute a reality that you dislike as long as there is one single pulse in your system you can contest and modify what you have into what you want.

Never lose your capacity of wonder, of astonishment, discover new lands and you will feel life bursting in your veins. Life is half work and half plays keep the child in you alive and you will never fail to live. Resolve your contradictions in complete harmony, find your magical place and only then you can observe your life and once you do you will become aware that your existence calls you to be the miracle a miracle of life. Escape your cage of limitations and reach the freedom of a life worthy of your humanity.