What is LIFE?

Sachinthani Ketakumbura
2 min readMar 16, 2020

This is a grave topic to talk about considering the many aspects it holds. However, what I am interested is not in explaining its scientific or the religious perspectives but of what I have learned in the years I have lived my life. This is something I learned through a song lyric,

“Life is never about just existing, it is about living.”

Over the years of development of the human civilization, people have forgotten that life was never about just living; that it was never about making money or living in an extremely luxurious life or living just to spend the next coming day. People are trapped inside the daily routines of life; inside the social convections; inside unattainable desires and hopes; inside negative emotions thinking that this was the life they were given and that they will never escape from this prison when all along the key to the lock was in their own hands.

Personally, in my life all along until very recently, I strongly believed and thought that at the moment that my life has no importance. I kept hoping that one day my moment to shine; my moment to rise would come. The thing was that “the one day” kept me wondering when would that be? Will it be tomorrow or in another 20 years?

After thinking about this for hours, what realized was that the moment I keep looking forward to may come or it may not. So, what I had to do was muster up the courage, open the lock from the inside and step out to the light to make way to my moment and design it to the way I want it to be. And that is what life is about; not following the same routine every single day or about just existing, but living creating each day that you LIVE a moment; a day worthy to be remembered.

This may not be easy as it seems, you may not get to make each moment the best but if not today then think, definitely tomorrow. If not tomorrow then someday, somehow during this week. What you have to remember is that life is never about just existing but that its about Living. I am trying to make it work, even though it is hard it is exciting, and it motivates you to live a better life. If I can, then why not you?

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Sachinthani Ketakumbura

I am a budding writer/journalist who has knack for breaking unhealthy and backward conventions and expressing the truth in a way that is impactful.