Look carefully at this photo. That’s life. When I took this photo in the wilderness of Africa I never thought it could have any meaning at all. It was just a photo back then. That is all. I was young, life was beautiful, days were brilliant, nights were nice and stars shown bright.
But now when I see the same photo it gives me a different meaning. It speaks to me. It is as if it wants to communicate. A mirror of life? may be.
When we grow older this is what life looks like. It’s a mess. Sometimes it can be ugly. Sometimes we are made to run like a headless chicken. We run and run and run. There is no end. We run again. We run until our legs get weaker and numb. Then we are buried. That’s where the running ends.
One life; that’s all we got. It’s not ‘we’ that decide how to live. It’s always the ‘others’. Believe it or not, we live for others, in one way or the other.
CoffeeLander 
Simplicity is elegance. Brilliant post!
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Thankee!
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Love your simple message– life, live it this is all we get– also great finisher!
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I am a simple man leading a simple life and have only simple messages to convey 🙂 Thanks – I liked your last line! I will take that as a super complement.
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Beautiful transition.. we are evolving every single day:) all the best
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Thank you very much. God bless
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I like your reflection on the meaning of the photo but I don’t really agree that it is a “mess.” What I see is lots of connections, a series of interwoven networks which we make throughout life. Each connection may be a person that has touched me in some way.
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Brilliant! It’s perfectly alright to have different view points. I like yours though.
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Profound!
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Thank you very much.
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❤ ❤ ❤
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Now that you are aware that you are living for others, what are you going to do about it? Yes, you have only one life n it’s you who will have to make sure that you do things that give you joy. Stop pleasing others n start pleasing yourself. When you feel good about something then you know you are doing the right thing. If it doesn’t feel good then you know it’s not right. Go with what makes you feel easy , nice, comfortable, happy. Good luck!!
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Nice piece of advice. Thank you for those lovely words.
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I just loved the way you interpreted the picture but I don’t really agree that life is ugly(until we mess with it). Surely it is not a wish granting factory but can we deny that it is such a beautiful treasure to have.
And if you really think that life is that way, would you mind reading my post THE BROKEN at https://rhythemicvocables.wordpress.com.
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Thank you for popping by. I will read your bit and hope it changes my perspective of seeing things around me 🙂
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It is true. But what we don’t realise or we forget while running clueless is that it depends on us how we need to take a turn for ourselves, for our wishes; eventually we’ve got one life. That’s it. 😌
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One life it is!
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I couldn’t agree more.
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Neither could I 😉
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Beautiful that we have such different insight in the same photos over the years..thank you for sharing..I love the thoughts to this..
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We sure do. We pass through different emotions that’s when a simple photo such as this conveys many different stories. 🙂
Thanks you very much for visiting my blog.
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Thank you for visiting mine as well.
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Your welcome!
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Life, I believe is not a mess as we make it out to be. Of course there is mess, entanglements. Distress. But, what if it would be just a smooth road, no charm, no enticement
I suppose would be left to look forward to. Oh, I love living with all the madness, chaos, euphoria, pain everything. Sort of twisted but wonderful 😊
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Looks like I’ve hit the rough road while you are cruising the highway! Wait until I get there. I will surely sing same song as you do 🙂 By the way, I am happy to see some positive thoughts on this. 🙂 Thank you!
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I liked the way you presented your thoughts 😊
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🙂 Thank you!
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How true!! Beautiful..
Life just feels like the ‘others’ are standing right behind you, holding a whip asking you to run nonstop, asking you to be one of those well oiled machines(which we are not.. we are like butterflies, free colorful) and now captivated with only one goal.. longing to be free..
On a side note i.e (shamelessly trying to promote my blog) My post running away is somewhat like this.. Feel free to check it out!
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Thank you for the comment. Life is pretty much what you have just described!
Nothing wrong is promoting your blog. I will surely visit your blog. After all there must be some scope for like-minded souls to flock together 🙂
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Haha! True 🙂
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Beautiful. When it’s just a terrible day I go and stand outside. I am reminded that God knew was going to need those trees and lake one day. So he made sure they’d be there right in that moment.
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Wow! No better way to put it than this. I bet you’ve got a different approach to life. Thank you for reading. God bless
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I think much of my perspective came from when I read the book “Captivating “.
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It must be a wonderful book then. I must try it sometime.
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It is an eye opening book for sure.
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Hmm..thanks for recommending.
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I love both this picture and your thoughtful interpretation of it.
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Thank you very much. God bless
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