Inioluwa Olutayo
@inioluwaolutayo
1 year ago
RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT LIFE
What really is the point of life; What's it about?
I think it's just about needs and wants and maybe feelings and love and lust and desires, and choices and whatever they say it's about
I say it's just about needs and wants.
They influence our choices, decisions, emotions and everything about our life.
But Why does life just have to be about wants and needs?
Cos, If you really think about it, that's all it's about.
I get that we need needs, but why do we want wants?
Or maybe, maybe wants are needs
Or needs are wants
Maybe we need needs to live, and wants a reason to live
But what's the point of living anyways.
If it's all about what we want.
Want to do, want to see, want to go, want to be with and want whatsoever.
Or maybe life is just about choices.
It starts with the basic choice of wanting to live
Yeah, That is a want too
Or, is it a need.. Do we really need to live?
And what's the point of living when death is sure.
It's ironic we don't always get what we need or want
We want life so bad, but death is sure
Yeah... This setup is messed up
And if you think too much about it, you start to question.
Question your essence, your choices, question the forces that be
Question ideas and theories and written narratives.
And I even question the idea of a deity, Yeah the one that creates.
Then I back up a little bit. Cos this is a written script
And there's no script without a writer.
And maybe the deity who writes or wrote the script has written or is writing it this way.
If it's written, maybe we are fucked, or maybe not
Maybe it's the best plot this story can ever get.
Or maybe it's faulty and we have to deal with it.
But I like to think the deity is still writing.
Coz what's the point of prayers if he's not.
Yeah prayers… I think hard about that too.
Why some get answered and others never,
They say there are criteria to get answers.
I say why should there?
But maybe there should be.
One that should separate the good and evil
The good get answers and the bad will not.
That's ironic too. I mean look at life, it says the opposite.
Well maybe prayer is not asking.
Maybe prayer is comfort and hope
Maybe it's the calm we need, to watch this already written script play out on his screen.
Or maybe we are the writers.
And we define our own characters by our choices, and actions
But how do we explain the things that happen?
Things we did not choose or need or want or pray for
How do I explain the evil's fortune and good's I'll luck
and a lot of things that do not make sense.
It appears that I can't say for certain who writes this story.
Cause the deity I think should create a perfect script
But if the ultimate writer is still writing
I've got a few suggestions for this story.
Take out enemies, that character's not necessary.
I'd prefer a life of everyday love and peace.
Take out the the hatred and evil and all negativities
And all sufferings, selfish and greed
Take out wants, we should be okay with needs.
But there's the need to want, Take that out too.
Take out riches and wealth then take success out too.
At the end of the day, you'd have to take out the good things too.
Cos bad people want good things and they get it the bad way.
I guess when I'm done with these take outs, you'd have to take out life too.
Maybe we need the bad as much as the good
The lacks as much as the haves
The wants as much as the needs
Failure as much as success
Hatred as much as love
Poor as much as rich…
I guess I get it now. The story cannot be perfect, this life cannot be perfect.
Perfection does not exist or cannot exist...
Or maybe imperfection Is actually what being perfect is,
since perfection is what something needs to be
Maybe imperfection is what life need to be
I guess we'll just keep living this script.
Get happy when it's fine and jolly
And then sad when it gets ugly
Live for needs, and work for wants
And so, in this imperfect story, perfection's a myth
Imperfection defines us, its essence we live with
For what is life without its highs and lows?
The ebb and flow, the dreams and the blows
Embrace the journey, its twists and its taunts
Live for needs, chase your wants, as life nonchalantly flaunts
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