Life

Life is what we live.  Everyone wants a good life; but life is also a continuum of a long drama.  Sometimes we have it good, other times we have it rough, other times we struggle and even at times we wonder what life is all about.

Life is a series of transitions that we undergo.  From conception to birth we move to adolescence.  After adolescence we leave our parents and get into marriage or start families as single parents.  We get to have our first young ones (babies) or just discover that we simply cannot have the babies.  We continue the transitions to the point where we lose our parents to old age or other causes.  Our children grow and finally leave us.

After the kids are gone, we are left wondering how fast those decades passed.  There is a feeling of emptiness and for some the desire to start all over again.  Good advice is to move on rather than give in to the temptation of restarting.   It is usually the men who will start again due to their biological advantage.  The women will in most cases have passed their reproductive stage.  Starting again is not a solution to the emptiness of the nest after the chicks have flown off.  Round two can never be the same as round one because there is even no guarantee of a successful finish.

For the majority who move on and rediscover themselves and their spouses, there comes a time when one spouse has to exit for good.  There after the surviving spouse also knows it is only a matter of time and they too will follow the departed; but that is life.

Therefore life is truly about transitions. In between the transitions, we go through various activities aimed at securing our needs and in most cases trying to satisfy Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.  We start with the most basic needs such as food and sex and for some lucky few build up to the most complex of needs-self actualization. 

As fate or bad planning have it, some of us get lost in the maze that is the hierarchy of needs and go before our time or resign to providence.  Good advice is that resigning to fate should never be an option.  We should always remain focused, determined to succeed in satisfying our needs in life.  We should always monitor and evaluate our progress against our set goals in life, always with the aim of ethically making the highest achievement without jeopardizing the ability of future generations to attain their achievements.

When things become really challenging we should adjust our plans to deal with the challenges but never resign to fate.

In this section on life, infotrackea.co.ke will provide information on various aspects of life to empower our visitors to make decisions that help in coping with the various challenges in life.