Oscar Wilde once remarked that the life is too important to be taken seriously.I find this quote to impregnant with profound meaning.Give your spin on it.
No Rakesh, that's not what he meant!! What he meant was that life is so very important that you should try to savour each and every moment of it and enjoy it to the fullest!
Nowadays, taking life seriously means working a hell lot more than before and try to earn money for later in life when you are already stricken with a number of illnesses such as BP, diabetes etc that you cannot fully spend the money you sepent your life working for!
For instance, how many of you spend a few minutes listening to a bird sing or relish the sweet fragrance of a flower?? or for that matter, spend time with the people you r eally care? that's what he meant!
Oscar remark signifies his opinion that life should not be taken seriously. We should enjoy life and not burden this with seriousness. Life is most important and not other matters.
Personally, I seriously believe that every moment of life is for joy. As we are social, we should attempt to make not only our own life but others' also joyous and happy.
I referred to this quote in a particular context on a day when I was going through a report of a teenage boy committing suicide for not doing well in his ICSE examination.Here's a very grim and tragic case- staking life in the results of just one exam!!!