Circles: How Earthy are Phoenixes

The Viewpoints

To truly witness life
One must know what it means
And to seek its meaning
One must acknowledge his views

What is life?
What is the purpose?
Why do you need to cherish life?
How to enjoy life?

As the story of Laryns was like a fairytale—as the plot related him as a phoenix—Laryns must have enjoyed his life to the fullest. He must have cherished it truthfully.

He chose to enjoy life and spared no sentiments of choosing to lie the remaining of his years—no, months on his hospital bed. He chose to risk his already at risked life. Choosing to oust his body from the medical equipment that were supporting his health was already one of the risks—the machines were his life support. But he was not waived from his personal decision. He believed it was his own fairytale—and he has all the right to flow it regardless of how the men in white were saying he has to stay. And the best risk he has taken, was to be bold and be a believer.

He was always the one to trust his decision—and it was his decision to live and test the flow of the rivers he was not used to knowing. He enjoyed life, and life was good to him. Laryns chose to change his lifestyle, he knew what could harm him even more. And everything was merely a decision.

What can we learn from the story of this man? Laryns have spared his many years working and preparing for the future. Part of how he was seeing life was how he has been handling it, he was not someone to be stopped just because he was told, the man was a decision maker; a risk taker; a believer of good things; a forgiver; and he was someone that coped more for the involvement of the risks he chose to take. The story teaches readers that in life, you need to take risks. You have to be authentic, to enjoy life, to value your seconds, to live until you can’t breathe.

His health was improving and this allowed him to live for fifty years. “The secret to good health is food and moving”, from a Japanese unnamed man. And Laryns was living up to that line. He changed his lifestyle. He left his stuff from where he came from, took the fund he has saved in his bank account—everything and started living an astounding new life in a village in Japan, as a risk taker as he was, he knew he has got nothing to risk anymore—he believed he was dying. And the best he can only do then was to still risk the days he has got in his own clock—but that was the sweetest risk he had taken. He met a companion.

Destiny is something no mind is high and powerful enough to dictate how it should flow. But it is affected to how men decide things. Nobody should be trusted when they say—your destiny changed—that’s baloney. It is not changed, nor had he known what one’s destiny was going to be in the first place. The men in white, the doctors’ words of him, that he has only six short months to live was not a destiny, it was what they chose Laryns to believe—to trust to. It was a prediction. And predictions are not always what destiny is. Destiny is men’s thinking plus others. Destiny is natures’ gift plus men’s decisions.

How a man will know what life is when he only depends on things those other men said. To know life, one needs to be bare, to be empty, to have nothing but has everything to lose, his heartbeat.

Laryns was a wise man and a risk taker. The qualities a man can be seen as independent to many things. How he was able to live more than he expected was not out of this world, was not unexplainable. He did live for many reasons but the change in his lifestyle was the biggest factor. “The secret to good health is food and moving”, that was what kept him alive for years.

In order to understand life, you need to accept what had happened and adapt to what is happening. The future is not for you to decide, but it is for you to build—to put efforts for, to imagine and to believe it is inevitable.

Life is a memory.

Life is ageless.

This may read so mainstream, but as long as your heart is still beating, life is possible. Chances are existing. New pages for your life’s story are still available to read. You can still fight your way to live, to share memories with somebody, to cherish the seconds and the breaths you haled.

Life is better if you breathe in peace. It is better if you are surrounded with good source of air to breathe.

Good word can also be a good air to breathe. And it can also be the pushing factor why your views to a lot of things are becoming deadly and corrupting. There is so much to understand—but it does not take deep thinking what good air is—what good music is. For as much as life is ageless, knowledge too is boundless and undead.

—Kin
Cebu, Philippines