a funny place called life

One little girl clad in a shabby coat just arrived before an enormous yet, really, when you take a quick glance at it, a strange and confusing styled gate. She walked the way most kids age 7 - 8 would walk, a bit of leaning her body to the right and to the left, the only thing making her looked normal and ... cute. She was using what seemed to be inherited shoes, it's also a bit oversize. And her neglected curly hair was tied upward, not exactly the type of neat bun. Appearing with eyeglasses, she looked around with a perfect composition of curiosity, fear, and awkwardness. As confusing as this might sound is the scenery that existed in front of this girl, a gate, a huge bizarre gate. Some times later, a man dressed in also peculiar ways showed up and handed her a card. Not too big I'd say for a size of a card, it fits the palm of her hand. It was written there "Welcome to Life!" The girl, like anybody of us here who is now reading or even me who writes, was confused. Instead of being happy to be welcomed, the girl stood freezing looking at the word 'welcome' on the card. Noticing the i-don't-understand behavior reflected on the girl's face, the man initiated to give her a sign to flip the card. She did. She flipped the card and there goes, "You are wondering what is Life, aren't you? Life is a funny place." She stared at it for a couple seconds before the man continues to tell her to flip the card, again. It's really magical, the way she just has to flip it again and again and different messages keep showing up. But this is the last flip and there was written: "So, welcome to the funny place called Life, girl!" 

We are all this little girl, or at least me. Coming to Life completely unaware about what presents in front of us and where we are heading, cluelessly putting our feet on the ground of Life and thriving so hard to keep walking forward, and at some points in this strange, funny place called Life, we are as messed up and confused as this little girl. "I can do this," we tell ourselves who is in the mirror when challenges appear. "Thank God," we look upward to the ceilings when we remember to be grounded. And "That's okay," we pat our back sometimes when reality hits. We are all trying to survive in Life, no? "Oh, stop, you make life seems like a dreading, endless marathon." Okay, then let's change the statement to We are all trying to laugh at this funny place called Life. I ever heard a sentence that goes "Life is crazy, you have to be crazier." It fits perfectly, though. Life is funny, you have to be funnier. So, I think if Life is not a place for you to survive, then it is a place for you to laugh until your belly hurts. Laughing at just how funny this place is.