The $64,000 Question

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These two questions constitute the “what is life about?” question. And if you and I must make the life’s journey easily and meaningfully, we must provide answers to these two “make-up” questions about ourselves.

Every new life is a new being on earth! Which ever way you come to this world, so far you went through the process of fusion, the Biologists agrees that you are a brand new and unique individual, who has never existed before you were born. Even if want to think in terms of cloning, Biotechnologist states that cloning is a copy of animal or plant. You and I know that a copy of something will only exist if there is or was an original! Even a cloned organism has variations or genetic recombination that differentiates it from the original. Besides, there’s no known man who is cloned.

Therefore, every normal human (even identical twins) is unique. No two persons can have exact traits, skills, talents, beliefs, convictions, potentials and intellectual capacities. To make it pragmatic and even more convincing, the fact is, no other human being has the finger print as yours anywhere under the sun! So you are you and I am me. You are designed to be exclusive.

In other words, you must understand that your make up (skills, talents, convictions, potentials, intellectual capacity etc) is your individuality – those things that make you who you are and differentiates you from others. It is also your inbuilt compass to help you navigate in the journey of life.

In this wise, this exquisite and precious asset of yours - your individuality is worth searching out. And when found, you have to cling tenaciously to it, nurture it and treasure it. Most important of all, live it. Living it answers why you are! It makes you able to occupy the vacuum that has always being there, waiting specifically for only you to fill. This affords you the right to importance and fulfillment in life. Every man is specifically designed for specific purposes.

In this vain, I admonish you never to try to follow in another man’s scripts. That is, do not imitate. It rids people of their significance and individuality. But it is expedient that one learns from others and receives adequate mentoring from experienced ones.

Life is about why you are who you are. This is unqualified, unrivalled, purpose-fulfilling answer to the all time soul-troubling, life-threatening, but destination-revealing question – “What is life about?”

Be yourself. Live your life.