A metaphor for life (Community).Everyone in this world has the right live their life as they wish. William William, crown prince of Germany William or Frederick William, 1882–1951, crown prince of Germany, son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack Shakespeare saw the world like a stage and all the things and the creatures in the world as the characters and decorations on this stage. This is Shakespeare's metaphor metaphor [Gr.,=transfer], in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which one class of things is referred to as if it belonged to another class. Whereas a simile states that A is like B, a metaphor states that A is B or substitutes B . What's yours? I see life as a bus, taking us from a zone to another. You will see why it later. In this life, the train of age takes you everywhere, and when it reach the place where your age has run out, you die. But while you living, you are on a bus going from station to station. Imagine now you are a passenger and are eating a sandwich Sandwich, city, Canada Sandwich, Ont., Canada, part (since 1935) of the city of Windsor. Sandwich, town, England Sandwich, town (1991 pop. 4,184), Kent, SE England, on the Stour River. and some chips. You wanted to go to specific place but while you are looking through the glass window you see a friend. You tell the driver to stop swiftly in order to catch your friend. After that, you get off the bus without planning. Likewise you do not know when you will die, and you cannot plan for it. It is an unknown fate. After you get off the bus, the passengers you have left behind miss you. They may, perhaps, never see you again. And if they liked you, they will pray for you. In this metaphor, as in real life, people who know kind and lovely people pray that Allah Allah (ăl`ə, ä`lə), [Arab.,=the God]. Derived from an old Semitic root refering to the Divine and used in the Canaanite El, the Mesopotamian ilu, and the biblical Elohim, the word Allah will take them to paradise when they die. This is my metaphor for life. Have you your own, good or bad?... Copyright Yemen Times The Yemen Times is unified Yemen's first and most widely-read independent English-language newspaper. The paper is published twice-weekly (on Mondays and Thursdays) and has its own printing press, advertising associates and news service. . All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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