Beware of Lifes Illusions Essay -- Personal Essays

Ive looked at life from twain sides now From up and down and still somehowIts lifes illusions I giveI re entirelyy dont know life at every last(predicate)-- From the song, some(prenominal) Sides, Now, by Joni Mitchell Meaningless Meaningless says the Teacher. Utterly meaningless Everything is meaningless1...I have seen all the things that are done under the sun all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind2. The words struck me like a slap to the face. Their truth, frore as ice, was suddenly clear to me. All the things I had been endeavour for, success, fame, fortune, redden the very human desire to be popular with my peers, they are all but chasing after the wind. They can never be caught. The moment you call back you have them they go twirling off in some new direction. We had been invited to a fall get together at a friends house. As we bevy to the party, there was a deer, newly dead lying alongside the road. Its formerly graceful form, now lay in a crumpled heap, apparently cast aside, like an unwanted rag doll. The flies were already striving to commit its body t...