Better at life

Life is all about living your best life. It is a competition between lives gunning for first place. Who is living life well? Who has the best life? Who is the Nr 1 liver (or should it be lifer?)? We look towards the rich and famous. We look towards the spiritual and humble. We look at family, friends, associates and those we admire and secretly envy. We look towards them to get ideas about living our own lives successfully. Recently I watched a video whose point was, life is not a journey nor a destination but a dance. We need to experience our life in musical terms, he suggested. What I know is that we as human beings are made of body, mind, heart, spirit and soul. And without getting into philosophical discussion about the difference between, let's say, the soul and the spirit, life is made up of certain elements, and we are responsible for them. Life is a gift, a temporary one. And we are all working on our lives every day. Some have given up and have stopped trying. The...