John-Roger, Peter McWilliams
Life - a metaphor.
There are many models of life - an analogy, allegory and metaphor, allowing us to understand such a complex, confusing and, at first glance, can not comprehend the phenomenon of life.
There is a school which teaches that life - this game (and its variants such as: life - it's a baseball game - life is a football game, life is like tennis, chess is like life - life is "monopoly" - life is croquet) .
"Life is like a game of whist, - said some time ago, Eugene Hare. - From the extracted hidden cards, and it all depends on your hands." Later, John Billing finished the thought: "Life is not how to have a good map, and to play well by what you have."
Some believe that life - is intricate machine (this approach is very popular in Germany). In Northern California believe that life is a computer. Vakminster Fuller joined these two characters: "The earth is like a spaceship, which can not be manual control."
So what is life - work or play? Karl Marx said: "Life - it's work," and Henry Ford was the only one who agreed. Disagreed Leon de Montenaken, who said: "Life - it is nothing like a game," and Liza Minnelli, who sang: "Life - is a cabaret."
Seneca said: "Life - a game. And the value it has at its length and its content."
What is this game? Jean de La Bruyere suggested that life - "it is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think." Kirk Douglas called life "screenplay." (From Seneca to Kirk Douglas in one paragraph. Average.)
Shakespeare, of course, called life, "the actor, who allotted him a watch is important to walk or suffering on the stage ...". Bernard Shaw to answer the question asked of art Bard: "Life for me is not just a short candle. This kind of magnificent light, which I had to hold it for a while."
Some people like a musical analogy. "Life is like a trumpet, - pointed out by-S.Handi. - If you do not invest in it, you get nothing from it." Samuel Butler said, "Life is like playing a violin in public, in which you develop this tool." Ella Wheeler Wilcox sang: "Our lives - songs. Lord wrote the words, and we put them to music, as we like - and the songs are happy, or tender, or sad, depending on the cycle in which we play music" .
One of the best literary analogy borrowed from the Jewish Theological Seminary: "Life - it is the only letter in the alphabet. It may not make sense. Or may be part of a great meaning."
One of the most famous Americans, Helen Keller, and proclaimed: "Life - it is either an adventure that requires courage, or nothing." Bernard Shaw agreed, albeit in his own way: "Life - a series of inspired follies. Challenge is to figure out how to make them work for you. Do not miss the chance: it is presented to you every day."
We relied on too esoteric things, let's go back to the ground.
How do you react to that to complete this chapter in a series of analogies "life - it's the food?" "Life - is a bow - wrote Carl Sandburg. - You clean it and weep." "Life is like eating artichokes, - tells us T.-A. Dorgan, - you have to go through so much to get so little." Or, perhaps, it is more like what Aunt Mom said: "Life - is a banquet, and some poor bastards are starving?" Don Marco called life "scrambled eggs." You can make of it whatever you want. The same we can say about life, is not it?
(To be continued)
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