It's like this

It's like this, life is. I tried to write a paper one time and my English teacher circled the word "this" every time I had it. I was absolutely confused. "This" is an easy word, and he had never said not to use it. I wondered if I had spelled it wrong or something!


As he circled the words, he explained saying, "Leah, what is 'this' referring to? Is it the previous sentence, or the whole idea? Qualify it, and define it so the reader doesn't get lost." 

Well, I took his advice and qualified every single "this" in my paper. The paper ended up being one of my best, but that's beside the point. Today, for the first time, I made an analogy to it. Life is like "this."

How can I say life, a word and the whole thing we are, is like an unclear transition? Well, I think in terms of everything being a non-fiction essay. If I'm living to be a persuasive paper, which I am since I live to show others Christ, then I can't be unclear. I can't be vague or leave my "reader" in the dust. If I say, "Life is so peculiar" then I should refer to what is peculiar. I don't need to qualify 'life' per se, since life is the quality of being alive (thanks Dr. Bill), but what I mean when I say "life." It's an unclear state, a transition from what I feel to what I say.


People throw the word "life" around like it's a "this:"
-"my life is average"
-"eff my life"
-"life is good"
-"life is hard"
-"life is just so strange"

WHAT DO YOU MEAN LIFE? Is it your feelings, your experiences, your breathing pattern, your thoughts, or the relationships you have that are weird? Is it the sum of you, or the bits? People don't always know if what precedes it is it, or another thing you said earlier. If you're vague, then you don't make sense.

I usually don't make sense.