Motion and Use

                      I’ve read the poem Motion and Use of the Tao Te Ching. There are some quotes that catch my attention. But I’m going to give my opinion one, which is "The motion of the way is to return".

                    From what I understand, I can explain that this quote is referring to "Life." Life of any kind of living. When I think about "life", I notice that it is going in circle (not to say backward). In my opinion, life starts from a point and ends at this same point. What I mean by this is that before any kind of living come to life, I consider it was in rest which means it was dead. Once life gets into that kind of living, it comes with weakness and gain strength over the times, it lives, grows with the support of another kind of living if there is one. But as time passes, this kind of living has skills and does all sorts of things in its own. However, in a certain periods of times this same kind of living starts to lose its strength, it starts to be weakening again and loses all the skills it has. For instance, let’s take a baby who just born. Let's consider before the baby was born, he or she wasn't existed (the baby was dead). I take the words did not existed as same as the word death, because something who is dead means that something is not existed. The baby comes to life with nothing, it is weak, can't help himself, he need someone to depend on. As time passes, the baby begin to grow, gain strength, becomes an adult, he has skills and other stuff. As life is a circle and as it is approaching to end at the point it begins, the adult who was a baby at the beginning starts to lose all of his strength, he becomes weak, he loses all skills and the other stuff he has. This means the adult who was a baby become a baby again as he or she is closed to the end where his or her live started. The baby becomes old. However e to understand that it is not like this all the time. Not all kind of living goes all this steps, some of them goes straight to the end. In other words they live for a short amount of times; they don't have a chance to enjoy their life. But as I wanted to make my argument clear, I pointed all of these things out. The reason why I say the adult become a baby again is because there is a time where he cannot help himself anymore, other people have to take of him like he had been taking care of when he first came to life. When this person finally gets to the point his life began, he or she dies. Life is traveling to return to the point where it starts. I prefer to life is going backward, it is going backward because it takes us directly back to where it took us.