Life

Spiritual energy.

When the question of what life really means is placed on the table, the answers to it are both numerous and diverse yet a great wonder that meets the examiner instantly is that though the answers are numerous and diverse, majority of these answers are correct as well. Hence the meaning of life is the unique question whose answer is far from unique.
Well for me, being a physicist with a near infinite love for creative writing, I consider life as many things and one of those things I consider life as is that life is energy. Life is basically a field where a seeming endless conversation of energy takes place.
Chemical energy in food becomes mechanical energy which men employ in doing various tasks like speech and all that.
Every trade that exists under the sun bears a unique name different from any other but personally I think all trade is basically buying or selling energy. The grocery store owner is basically selling chemical energy, the boxers trade mechanical energy, thermal energy and the likes. The electrical engineer having purchased chemical energy from the grocery store converts it to mechanical energy which in due time is converted to electrical energy. The weapon maker today often converts nuclear energy to heat energy in proportions that exterminate life. Life is basically a  field where energy is traded daily. Both matter and non matter partake in this cosmic trade,  galactic bodies are not exempted.
Being in many ways a writer, I have long wondered what form of energy is traded by a writer, a public speaker and the likes. A writer could write a book about cooking or making a car, these are written energy which when acted out become full blown energy conversations. A preacher or public speaker does same, and when their advice is acted out, physical energy is often the result.
But what about a writer of fictional stories, a writer of inspirational poetry, what form of energy do they trade? These professions trade inspirations to the mind, inspirations that do not necessarily involve physical energy. If life is a field where energy is traded, then I say writers of inspirational poetry trade either mental energy or spiritual energy. Because their traded energy often cannot be touched but only felt by the sixth sense.
Poetry in its glory days thrived on the potency spiritual energy can own when it grows in a mind that believes in it. The prophetic parts of spiritual books like the Christian Bible were written using poetic languages, just to prove my point.


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Written by Eterigho Oghenekome Humphrey. His Christian non fiction book titled Faith-Life is currently available at Amazon Books.