What is life? Could you define it?

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I have read number of articles on the topic 'Life'. Some articles discuss on lighter part of life, some miseries of life, some also tell us their nasty or pleasant experiences of life. But, what exactly life is? When we are born, our fingers tightly clutches our palms rather we can say our tiny hands remain closed. But when we go, they remain opened. Probably, this tells us that when we take birth, we come with so many things-probably memories of our previous life or God's Blessings? They could be anything which we would never understand. And when we go after living this life, some times meeting natural death, sometimes un-natural, but when we go, our hands remain open, our palms, fingers opened and stretched. Is it because whatever we had earned, fames, infames, wealth, popularities everything, we leave in this physical world and fly away to our God probably to take another birth. So, what exactly life is? I could never understand and probably, I would never. In my Country, India, we had a 'joint family system' meaning all brothers used to live together with their wives and children. Parents and grand parents used to guide all members equally. Their responsiblities used to increase, when sons left the house for their jobs, away from them, leaving their wives and children under the care of their parents. They used to come whenevr they got leave for a brief stay with their wives, children and parents/grand parents. Slowly, situation started changing with the econimic-explosion and lust to earn more and more. It has become fashion now to leave parents immediately after marriage and go to some distant places to settle down with wife. Sons, generally, no longer care for their parents and visit them rarely. They are happy with their spouses. They never bother to know welfare of their parents and most of such parents ultimately land in a old-homes, which runs on charity. So, the parents who gave happy moments of their youth-life for up-bringing their children, remain uncared. This experience move like a cycle because the same sons would meet similar treatments from their sons. Why I am writing this which has no relevance when I am discussing on 'Life', I don't know. Probably, I felt very deeply when I came to know the situation of one of my very close friends. I woud make it a story form and would come back tomorrow to tell you the sad plight of an old and haggard person. This reminds me Shakespear version when he said 'It (Life) is a tale, told by an idiot (God), full of sound and fury, signifying nothing'!