Today I was reading an announcement on Ryuichi Sakamoto's site in which he announces that his diagnosed with rectal cancer And he had a surgery, and it was successful.
In the end of the announcement he said that from now on he will be living alongside cancer but, He is hoping to make music for a little while longer.
Disheartening news eh mm, though it led me think to what a human life worth and the legacy he leaves behind.
Maybe now you're a young man And life's still ahead of you relatively, however how are you going to be in the future? When you get old let's say the same age as Ryuichi.
What are the big choices that you made when you were still young and your vision of the life that determined those choices at the time?
It seems a complicated situation since a lot of factors and conditions control its growth on different levels and this affects how we see life in general
it hard to decide what a human life worth because every person differs the way he grew up, his surroundings, his parents' upbringing, his own efforts in developing himself... so the problem lies in agreeing on a standard to define what a human life worth, but it is not impossible.
We, the human being, look forward to a bright future and looking forward to it without effort that would not produce a positive outcome, and if no effort was made, the inevitable result would be disappointment. Despite leaving your mark on life.
And for me, doing the effort is tied to the goal and what it represents for you,
Despite Ryuichi disease still wants to continue making the thing he loves, and I don't think somebody does something that he don't like can complete it in such circumstances.
Regarding the legacy, we also look at it from the window of the way in which we grew up and our outlook on life. Yet we agree can that morals and ideals that are closest to true human nature must be adorned with, and people with these qualities we hope to stay around, so you cannot compare Stalin to Malcolm X as such.
The striking thing is that someone's legacy can influence you in terms of inspiration and example, as in Islam, where the Almighty God commands us to follow the example of the Prophet(PBUH). From here, it is clear that a person is impacting his surroundings, which can expand to reach all human beings.
it is safe to say now that what a human life worth is something that cannot be measured. Its value can't be determined by a physical standard, perhaps by a standard that I could not determine...
Ryuichi Sakamoto
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