Muhammad Awais Arif
4 min readJul 21, 2020

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What is life? Why are we here? Why are we doing what are we doing? These are some questions that are answered but also unanswered at the same time. I wonder what is the purpose of this living and dying? There are a lot of questions of this sort, but all begin with life. The strange thing is that the beginning is so complex that we have been trying to answer this question since our inception. For me, as a 17 years old boy who hasn't accomplished anything in his life, life is a mystery.

Life is something considered as something moving and has an existence to something. I am making things more complex but let’s make it easier. Life is something that appears to have a lot of different meanings. There's a different definition of life in every individual mind. Some have a standard definition of life, to which many of us agree. For the past two years, these questions have been a massive part of my life because these questions let me see everything from a different perspective. Even though these questions are still unanswered and don’t have a concrete structure,but still, they are helpful. I am a Muslim, and my religion says that we are here in this mortal world for the test from Allah, which I agree and can’t deny. But I think that something greater is out there. I wonder if getting a job, having a family, and dying is life or doing something you love is life. I wonder if helping each other out is life or surpassing each other in careers, relationships, or in any other aspect of life is life. You can see I imagine a lot. But this quest of finding a real meaning of “life” is my main goal. We all don’t want to die but do we all want to live? If we're going to live, then what for?
REFLECTION OF LIFE
Let me reflect on all of you through your lives. We all have some goals in our life. Some have career goals, and some have relationship goals. Some want to make a lot of money, some want to make music, and some want to enjoy life. Some of us want to travel in life. But I have just reflected on some of the goals of us that put a smile on us. Now it’s time to reflect the Darkside. Some of us want to die. Some of us want to kill someone. Some of us want freedom. Some of us want to forget our past. Some of us want something terrible for others. Some of us want to leave everyone we know. Some of us want to stop everything. But we can’t.
STRUCTURE
Right now, you are genuinely intrigued and mixed with feelings. I am not going to give you an answer because everyone has their minds shaped how they want. I will provide you with these questions and a structure, but you have to build this structure on your own. I am writing this because a rational mind can’t understand this. You need to think irrationally and ask yourself,
FEAR
Fear is something that stops us from certain things we want to do in life. But it also makes us do things that we don’t want to do. Like fear of starving to death makes us do the job that we don’t like. Fear is something that lets us think about what we are doing? It allows us think about many things from different perspectives. Fear of death is what moves us daily in our life. But what happens when we don’t have fear? You have to think for yourself what fear brings you in your life.
TIME
Time is something that keeps us moving. Anything in the world can stop, but time cannot. Time keeps me worrying the most. What if I don't get my answers and time stops. Time is also a loop of space that keeps us in a loop of chaos. Time also gives us freedom, but at the same time, we are his prisoners. Time makes us think about every aspect of life, but it also stops us from thinking. It’s a complex thing, and we cannot understand it rationally. Allah created this world with a lot of complexity but also gave us the strength to try to figure it out.
POINT TO PONDER
We all suffer through tough times for better times, but we are never ready to face tough times after good times because we all want enjoyment in our lives. We all need to cover our necessities. We are always in the hustle of something. We always care what others think of us even though we react that we don’t care. We always care for others' reactions. We are constantly trying to make our value in front of others. We all want that after we die, someone remembers us. This is a sad reality that even though ten generations remember us, the eleventh generation is not going to remember us. But I want to ask you what these things mean for you? Why are you doing what you are doing?
CONCLUSION
Now I have reflected on some things with you. It’s time to bring the real questions. What is life for you? What do you want to do with it? How much you want, what you want in life? What is the purpose of your existence? What do you want from your life? Think about it, and you will start to create structure and your new definition of life. And I saved the biggest question for you in the past. Who are you? What are you? What makes you, you? And why it makes you, you?

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Muhammad Awais Arif

Hi there, I am a blogger here to entertain and educate you. Besides writing, I like to play video games, read books, make websites, and make videos on Youtube.