WHAT IS LIFE?

Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 21, 4 June 1952, Page 3

WHAT IS LIFE?

(By

S.K.)

How vainly do we poor mortals strive to define Life. We know that to live is to be/ but when we seek to delve further than that we come back "Through that same door wherein" we went. Peering back into the annals of history, it is interesting to note the comments oi immortal writers and philosophers — Firdysu very ironically summarises life very ibriefly as "Illusion, Cheat and Fraud." • "The best of all is not to be born" says iSophocles. (and who has not thought this at times ? ) "Life is not to breathe, but to act." Lycurgus (Typical of a woolsale). "To live well, live to-day." Plautus. (our trades people should appreciate this thought). "Luck rules life, not wisdom." Publius Syrus. (This is evident on the Race-course). "Life is a tissue oi opinions." (Were the "Taupo Times" thus.) "A fallen tear, which the earth drinks up" sadly comments Aleardi. "A point with a memory and a hope" says Rosetti. (one cannot but agree this is apt.) "Living is a race to death" Dante (Makes a body think of the breathless rush of life in a big city). "Most men spend one part of their life making the other "part miserable." (This, alas, is only too true of so many of us). "Life's an interjection — an Oh! an Ah! and a Bah!" Byron. (M.P.'s and those of Public Bodies must feel likewise.) But perhaps best of all is Thomas Overbury — "I like the reply of that philosopher who, when one asked him what he thought of human life, said nothing, but shitugged his shoulders and walked away."