The Upshot of Life

                What is Life?

As per what Langston Hughes stated in his poem, ’Mother to Son’ that “Life ain’t been no crystal stair.” According to Wikipedia, “Life is the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.” And there are other countless more definitions and meaning for life that is based on scientific basis, on experiences, on the understanding of the person and etc. But for us, what really is Life?

For me, Life is living. Life is like a chance that God gave us, so that we can learn lessons, learn from our mistakes and failures, experience what is living and how to live, so we can learn to not be ashamed of falling down but instead stand up, learn how to grow up, learn how to understand, learn how to feel and learn how to do your best every single time so you can achieve your goals, achieve success and happiness.

In life, we all do different things every day. We do good or bad things, depending on our decisions. And in those decisions, we can easily affect all that surrounds us, positively or negatively. And with those decisions and acts, those would be our trademarks, remembrance, souvenir and legacy to the people that became a part of our lives and the people that knows us.

For me, I want to be remembered for the deeds that I have done that would describe who I really am. I want to be remembered by people that I had been one of those chosen people who touched their hearts (of course not literally) and that I had become a part of their lives too. I also want to be remembered for the talents and skills that I possess that helped me achieve my goals and dreams in life. And someday, I want to be—scratch that, I will be a successful accountant in South Korea and continue living my dreams there. I also want to be remembered as the ‘Princess Ann E. Buendia’ that was who I really am, and not some plastic act of sweet nothings. And that are some of my goals in life.

 Don't you fall now because life is not about how hard you fall, it's about how you stand up every time you fall, so stand up, wipe your tears, heal your wounds and climb up to success.

 Life is beautiful, don't waste your time mourning, live life to the fullest.