What is life like?

Question

Metaphors please.

Answer 1

A box of chocolates :)

Answer 2

Life is about the journey, not about the destination.

Buddha:

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -- Thomas L. Holdcroft

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -- Gandhiji

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. -- Ann Landers

Albert Einstein:
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Abraham Lincoln:
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.-- Buddha

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddling.-- Claude Pepper

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.-- Alfred D. Souza

Answer 3

Humans always pride themselves to be a higher species because of their ability to think and make decisions. In my opinion, the ability to think is starting to get in the way of our lives. Because people think, and everyone think differently, quarrels and fights are started. Because people think, their school essays get discredited; students are not supposed to think, they are supposed to 'think' like people of the past who had written some books or some form of evidence and include those in the essays. Because people think, those who don't think have to conform to the ideas of the former. Because people think, they cannot come to a decision about some things and it will always be there, never-ending, never gonna be solved. Because people think. Too much in fact. Wouldn't it be good if everyone just do things without thinking too much? Go for it. On impulse. On instinct. Would that make things better? Look what has all the thinking done to us. Yes, we have the technology, the entertainment and everything else which people of the past did not have but we no longer have the simplicity in people. I'm not saying that people in the past did not think but they were smarter. They don't think so much. What's the point of thinking so much and still no conclusion and decision could be made? Doesn't that make you feel worse?

Bottomline: we think too much. Don't k. To whoever this is applicable to.

Answer 4

A movie, featuring a man trapped on an small raft floating down a river with an inevitable waterfall at the end. There are floating islands with other people on them having good times, some out of reach, some you can manage to swim over to and some you don't want to. All in all the man's path down the river is changed by every island or raft he boards.

Answer 5

Life is like an onion, all the layers grow and you get so you don't know who you are any more. although i really like the metaphor that life is like a box of chocolates. never know what you are gonna get. why would you askk, alittle strange.

Answer 6

Like visiting someone in secure prison - that glass sure creates a gap between your senses and reality.

Answer 7

life is like a roller coasters sometimes your at the bottom sometimes at the middle and sometimes at the top.but you can't really stay in one place,life is like a race that we need to finish it,so every day of our lives is a new beginning for us to be able to reach the finish line.

Answer 8

Life is dark like the raven.

Answer 9

Life is like we are constantly in an examination hall.

Answer 10

like an interesting novel that keeps addicted ,everytime trying to see what will happen next