Life – an undefined fairy-tale

When asked to several persons the question “What is life?” I came upon mainstream answers like “It is what is lived to the fullest” or “life is love” and so on. 

It is a pre-defined ideology that girls are the ones who desperately seek for a happy ending. Well, let me tell you it is just not confined to them. Everyone in their deepest corner looks for “he/she/they lived happily ever after.” This may seem off the topic but this is one of the aspects which help me to build my point.

When I was asked the same question I could not answer it easily. I am only 16 years young. My life till now has been revolving in the realms of the primary and secondary school; and I still have a few more years till I may actually cross the boundaries of my bubble and have a 360 degree turn of my perspective. Coming back to the topic, I pondered on the question and this thought came to my mind, our life is a fairy-tale, an undefined one.

Everyone may think that the journey of our life from birth to death may consist of thorns and cross-roads and then a happily ever after but that is not how it exists. When you least expect it, life throws at you another curve ball. 

Life is not about discovering romance or eternal solitude and peace. It is a mixture of horror, mystery, humor, love, passion and heaven knows what other cues.

One of the aspects of life like it has been said by Santa in ‘Rise of the Guardians’ is finding your center. Your center is the one that helps define your life. It is what your life revolves around and what helps you to mold yourself into what you may become in the future.
We do not know what will happen in our future and neither can we predict it. There would be no thrill to our lives if we know when, where and how our journey will end. The thrill and excitement of the suspense is what keeps most of us going.

Life is a fairy-tale because you have a touch of magic, hope, faith, desire, beauty and charm, hearts and flowers but at the same time misunderstanding, deception, betrayal, suspense, drama and so forth.

Life is a fairy-tale because people enter and depart, they help you mold yourself or you end up molding them, they destroy you or you destroy them.
But, life is an undefined fairy-tale because it is unpredictable. Our lives are not stories that have been written by some authors. We are the creators, the developers of this mysterious journey.
Life is an undefined fairy-tale because we are the protagonist, the antagonist, the trees and the animals, the fools and everything that makes a story.
Life is an undefined fairy-tale because we know how fairy-tales end. But not everyone’s life has the same ending. There is no definition to how our lives may end or a norm of how it should end.
Life is an undefined fairy-tale because we don’t know what will happen in the future. Our creation and imagination is what defines ourselves and sets our destination. Our destiny is not pre-defined as people say, we create it ourselves.

Lastly, life is an undefined fairy-tale because defining it would just be too monotonous and purposeless.