Life is not an easy corridor along which we travel

Life is not an easy corridor along which we travel
- Israelmore Ayivor

Life they claim is a proverbial replica of the chameleon’s skin. It can therefore change at any point in time in any condition regardless and irrespective of what is fed into it or what is drained out of it. Life is not a permanent per say platform or adventure as the holders of some re-known philosophies and diverse perceptions my pinpoint it. That’s why some agreed that “no condition is permanent”. Life is like a trolley that does not go straight in its path unless it is purposefully guarded with caution, courage and consciousness.

Some scholars described life as a platform for experience. Other theologians also view it to be a podium for missions. No matter what definition is given to it, it remains the composite of varieties of challenges; both the solvable and the unsolvable, hence can not be a straight journey in any way. The unchangeable challenges, accept them the way they are and adjust yourself to be adapted to them. The changeable must with discipline, determination and diligence must be dealt with promptly to pave the way ahead. It takes progressive persistence and perseverance to achieve what one is working for. It also takes truth and sincerity to gather what you have achieved. When you meet overcomeable challenges, what comes into your mind? Succumbing or attempting?

An attempt t overcome life’s challenge is half the success of the purposed achievement. Just a trial, an attempt! To say life is a smooth walkway is untrue; to call it a run-over race is deceptive. This is because it is not only covered with thorns and inhibitors, but also tufts of repellents. Bear in mind they wore their hand-gloves only to wade and consequently delay your purposed achievement process. Hardly would a man trail in life when he quits. Quitters they say are not winners and it’s believed that no winner has ever quitted. Being defeated is untruly a permanent condition, giving up make it wrongly temporal. Being found disappointed, delayed in life’s nests does not mean you should not insist to hatch yourself out of a confining predicament. Endurance and persistent perseverance prepares for you a lubricant for every suppressing friction if life. This lubricator; - “try again it is”.

When the journey on life’s tiles seems slippery, what next? Try another path, try again! If it’s as if the going is getting tough, try again! Irrespective of the shames, the blames and the damns, try again! May be this time round, you will get it, try again! All that other folks can achieve, why with trying may not you? Just apportion this in your brain; “if you strive, it’s no disgrace”- try again!

“Life wouldn’t have been funny if it had not contained dos and don’ts” says Mickey Rooney. It’s really the extent to which life’s uneasiness and crookedness have belted the human race that suggests the extent to which an achiever should rejoice after reaping at his destination” says Israelmore. If life’s corridor were to be a straight pathway, it would perhaps not be interesting. If it were to be purchased with a song, it would have been as monotonous as a repeated dirge. I agree that it is “the Eves and the Marys” of life’s composition that made people to obtain their definitions for it. Yet though life condones for some allowance for its limitations, some complain it is tragic, partly because they do not value the essence of “keep trying” and also because, they feel it should be bagged for them on the silver platter.

To accept the provisional truth that I may term it, life is sometimes by chance, who knows you would be that lucky spermatozoa among the 300 millions shed after coitus? Life is sometimes by nature and sometimes by personally exploited talents. We journey on a long crooked way; - life; and as every traveller does, our minds should be focused on the destination. Life should not be thought of as a mere breakthrough, but rather a broad field with films of shrouding dusts on every nook and cranny of it.