Why do people say life is short? Is life really short?

Question

Why do people say life is short? Is life really short?

Answer 1

Yes, but only when compared to the lives of other things, like the sun. Compared to the several day long life of a fruit fly, ours seems quite long. It all depends on your point of view. The problem we humans have is that we are aware of our own mortality, we KNOW we are going to die, what we don't know is WHEN. Animals do not have a sense of time passing as we know it, counting hours and days, but some DO have a sense of time passing, like a dog which welcomes you home. I honestly think a dog senses long and short periods, sensing when you have been gone for only a few hours and knows that a few days is longer, but they do not count the days as we do.

Answer 2

The life is short.....to waste it,being sad.....Be happy and live an immortal life.......

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Answer 3

Life is the longest thing you will ever do.

Answer 4

life is short yes it is u never knw any thng abt life and its very fast.

Answer 5

compared to what?

there are other animals that live longer than us and others that live shorter,

so its relative and you can never say life its short or long,

but those who say mean that sometimes you're so busy with things in life and just dont realize that time passes so fast and then your youth is gone

Answer 6

The older you get, the faster the years go by.  So it makes life seem short.  Also, as we age, we lose a lot of memories.

Answer 7

People say life is short because  art is long.............

Answer 8

Compared to eternity, (our next life)  i would say "very short".

Answer 9

Too short for the fulfillment of our dreams and, at the same moment, a sentence of unbearable length...a great riddle, non?

Answer 10

It really depends on what do u think about ur own life.

Answer 11

Sure, life is short when you compare it to the life span of the universe and the vastness of time.

But on the other hand, life is the longest thing you will ever do.

Answer 12

They say life is short because it can end any moment,u can by anything,and be gone from the world so that's why you have to live a little,also before  you grow old and can not enjoy life.  

Answer 13

Abraham once quoted,

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts but it's the life in your years"

You life may be short if you think it is, it might be long if you think it is. It is all in the mind. A person who is having a really bad time might say it's long because they don't enjoy it and I'm sure you know that time goes faster when your having fun and slower when your not enjoying yourself.

So life can be short, only in your mind.

Answer 14

Yes life is definitely short to really enjoy all the benevolence of the Almighty .

Answer 15

Life is long or short depending on the person, if he wants to explore the unexplored life if longer than the longest but inevitable.

Answer 16

i like the answer given by Nessa.

And..we know by now(see below)that NO answer is ever complete(and i am all in favor of keeping and trying-to-keep,general and critical knowledge based Philosophy,free of Religion,by the way). But,some of you have unfortunately missed the fact that for some,even possibly billions(!),like is definately not"short".

i refer to you the masses who live a poor life compared to the masses like us-it was on the news last night that over a billion people have no or little access to WATER;and thus,daily "life" for them is probably anything-but-short;i mean its likely to be a gruelling struggle-an incessant one which they find hard and continous,possibly to the point of desperation(and .

continous,daily,desperation).



There are also those (youngish?)convicted prisoners who have just started their "life"sentences(for bad or good)-life for these too could not and should not be written/described as "short";especially but not exclusively if such prisoners were completely innocent of the committed crime(s).

Have a nice night,y'all "night owls"!

Answer 17

Yes, of course life is short b'coz we never know when we are going to die so “Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.”

Answer 18

Usually, when I am enjoying my life, the time goes bye so quickly and when the reverse is the case..... how time drags!

Answer:

Because there never seems to be enough time to do the things that you want to....then one day,  from out of nowhere, comes the grim reaper..... and, of course we are never ready.  Time waits for no body.

I really enjoyed the film.... Mr. Black staring  Brad Pitt, when death takes a holiday.