What is life?

Essay by Russel InceHigh School, 10th gradeA+, January 1997

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What is life? Is it a mystery? Is it an adventure? Is it a way to help

others? Or is it so brief compared to the rest of the time in the universe it has

no meaning at all? People have been wondering this for thousands of years,

yet no one has found an answer. Many look for complicated ways to

understand life, yet the answer is so simple; life is a book.

Since the day the binding was opened for the first time,and the author

began writting the story; every thought, action, and emotion that is

experienced is written into the book. Memory is just rereading the book.

Some pages torn, stuck together, smeared so we can't remember it as well,

but it is all writtten down. Every hope, every dream, every fear is recorded in

time forever.

Some books have flashy, tacky covers, but tell the most troublesome

stories on the inside.

Some have dull, nondescript covers, but tell the

warmest, most adventurous stories that causes one to recall some earlier

chapter in ones own life.

Every experience is a chapter. Some chapters speak of friends and

family, some speak of the most horrible fears and the most dreamed about

hopes, and some tell of Love and Loss that the author experienced.

Some chapters are not finished and will be completed at a later time.

Some chapters are blurred, because not even the author knows what

happened, or what he wishes would happen. And some chapters are blank

pages, waiting to be filled. More than once, the author has wished he could

go back a few pages and rewrite it differently, but alas, the book has already

been published, and cannot be changed.

As the book ages, it loses some of its shine, pages tear and fade, and...