What is LIVING ?

You may have wondered many a times in life trying to find an answer to this. Various stages in life you may have figured out various answers. Sometimes after different events and experiences that come with them you may have changed your view on life and living. At a certain age in life you come to know a collection of all this is the best way to define what living is.

For me personally living may mean something total contrast to how you may see it. It's like success, which is also perceived entirely differently to each other depending on their preferences in life. However, everyone one of us must have a clear understanding what Living is as early as possible in our life. 

Is "living" to follow the tide? Do what all the other people do? Do what we were taught to do? Like the way the everyone in this society live?

For an example, to school nearly 10 years? and to graduate after another 3 or 4 years? Find a job, buy car, get married, hire a house or buy a new house? have kids and raise them? and work more and more to raise them? and to make sure they follow the "LIVING" style you lived and ultimately get rid of them when they get along with their partners? 

Ohhhh wait. Not yet. Sometimes or quite often at some cultures you need to raise the kids of your kids. and help them through their young age. Quite possible if you live longer you will have to make sure they are married to right partners. Hmmm sounds very monotonous right?

Is chasing dreams and hopes forever called "LIVING" ? Because,

When you are young you want to pass exams and enter university,

when you enter a university you need to graduate well,

when you are get the graduation, you want to find a job, 

when  you find a job you need to get promotions,

when you get promotions you wish to become a boss,

when you start earning a little you want to double it,

when you double it you want to double it again,

you want to buy the dream car,

dream house,

you work even more,

and

you want to find the right partner,

when you have a partner you want an ever better one,

some way or another you marry, and you need kids, 

when you have kids you need them to be the best kids, 

so you take them to that class this class, dance, gymnastic, swimming, soccer etc etc

you want them to graduate, find a good job, marry and solve their problems, raise their kids sometimes, so on & so fourth.....

Aren't we all almost follow this same pattern of living? Are we actually living enough for our-self? Do we do what we want to do the most? 

Such as having enough time for our hobbies? Enough time for our friends? relatives? to admire the beauty of places nature and play?

Have you seen people who left this pattern of living to find true peace? Unveil the true living defined by them? In an Era where money controls everything, those who live without using money? Those who choose to live in jungles? Those who have found interesting ways of living? 

How are you "Living" ??? Is your living style different to others and if so how? What should be the ideal way of LIVING?