Life of meaning

There were some people coming from different path and heading toward one same direction. They met in one intersection. Not too far from that intersection, there lied a tree, a big one (just combine the street, the path, and the tree, and you easily have a different story on it :p). A tree with enormous amount of fruit hanging on it. They looked at each other, and they decided to climb that three, to pick up some fruits. Some people climbed until a few meter ahead the others. Some people just looked for a long stick to reach the closest fruit above them. They didn’t climb. Finally, all of them got the fruit, relatively same amount of fruit in their bag.

A few second later, some people decided to start eating that fruit. Some people just stared on it, but ate the fruit at end. They sat down side by side down the tree. Everyone looked like enjoy their small food, in the middle of nowhere. Suddenly (there is always a climax in every story, but I don’t know how to start better than the word ‘suddenly’ ), some people started to cry. Not a real cry actually, the tears streamed down glide upon their face. Just a few second later, the others people started to throw the fruit on their hand, a half bite fruit, into the bush. They looked so terrified. The rest of them looked so confuse, about what just happened. They wanted to ask, but too reluctant to move from their seat.

So, already have an answer? No, it don’t actually have an even close connection with the title :p. There are three different schemas, three different kinds of people, and three different reasons of what really happen above. Why three? I hope you still remember about yesterday, today, and tomorrow things. So, what on earth this my three favorites thing play the role in my story today. The simple answer, it happened everyday. The closest thing around us. The easiest thing I can imagine. Thousands mystery there waiting to be solved (or not). And the last, they compose a thing called life (my ‘quote of the day’ ).

Basically, there are three different paths from them coming. Simply change the word paths into pasts on the previous sentence. That would be done it perfectly. These three groups of people are heading toward one direction: The future, or tomorrow. But, in the middle of their journey, just a few meters away with that intersection, they met a big tree with many fruits on it. The story teller always has a big expectation with every tree in their story. I don’t know why, but I can guess, that the tree has a similar character with its story teller or the story itself. It always grows no matter you do, covering you with it leaf, giving you a sense of peace, secure, and life. A perfect descriptor to describe about what the story teller want to be. Yup, I want to be that story teller, I want to be that tree.

Well, back to the topic. When everyone decided to picking up some fruits, they do in vary way. Most of them climbed that tree, with vary level of elevation. Rest of them just looked for some stick to help them to reach the closest fruit above them without climb up the tree. Still, at the end, they got relatively same result, same amount of fruit. We can’t get the real meaning of this until we move on the next scene (emm,, what the complementary word ‘scene’ in story matter? Whatever). After they got what they want, or maybe its better using phrase: achieving their goal, they react in vary ways. Some of them drop their tears, half of them calm for a second, and then look so terrified, and the rest of them act like common people do.

There are three kinds of people that I’m trying to describe. The first group of people are the people with the highest effort to achieve their goal, actually not an effective one, a process oriented one, a people that choosing life of meaning. They climb higher than the other, and they easily spill out the tear when they succeed achieving their goal. They respect the past, and do the best for today. The second groups of people are the people with an average effort to achieve their goal, they doubt all the time, and think about future much than the others. They really try to pursuing a life of happiness but unfortunately they got it all wrong. They got nothing but worried and terrified about uncertainty of tomorrow. The last group are the effective one, they goal oriented, they ignore the past, the past will only slow them down, they believe that tomorrow is just another today, tomorrow they will achieve even greater goal, they dedicated themselves to pursuing life of happiness. And likely they have it.

There are two different way of life. Life of meaning, and life of happiness. A clearly two different path that we never have it both. Chasing happiness in your life, will likely lead you into ‘yes that I want’ people, third group in story above. We talk about happiness in common, not the truly happiness (no one can describe this kind of happiness, only God had it right to fill it in your heart), the measurable one, the thing that had been chased by the ancient king in this world, the thing that sometime we feel it far beyond us, the thing, when you reached, will probably giving you nothing but satisfy. It will make you happy always, but which happy?

The other path is life of meaning. The life itself has totally teach us how to think, how to speak, how to react, how to respect, and how to life itself. You never lost when choosing this path. Because everything has it own meaning, it own purpose, no coincidence. You will respect the past as your great shifu, do your best for today, and make a wish for better tomorrow. There will no single moment such as pain, angry, sad, love, lonely, down, happy, without you notice what that really mean. We can look everything behind the wall, everything behind the code, everything beneath the earth, but it doesn’t seem what it like. Just like the piece of lyric from maroon five: ‘..we have not hit the ground, doesn’t mean we’re not still falling..’.

The better understanding of the life is, the better we can overcome the entire problem. I don’t really mean to be a teacher here, I just want to spill out the ideas that has fulfilled my head in this last twelve hour. Perhaps you’ll find out that many ideas doesn’t match with yours, feel free to give me a feedback. I know I have no competence to write about life and so on in my relative young age. You’re the one who have greater experience about your rough life. But, remember this is not just about the story…

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