Life is too Short to be Smart

Abstract

The poem is a criticism of the current humanity, which is obsessed with the idea of wealth, status, and material success and ignores the inner consciousness and demonstrates how we as a generation nearly blindly believe that cash and accolades are more important than silent development. It describes life as a short-lived daydream where humans pursue money, authority, and social acceptance and forget about spirituality, empathy, and the valuable relationships, just like we tend to refer to people in groups as squads and followers in class work. The speaker emphasizes that people are absorbed by ambition, pride, and competition and lose sight of their own nature, which is what I observe in college culture, in which the grades become the point. The poem reminds us with the repetition of the fact that he does not know him or herself, that it is a tragedy to forget that inner identity and purpose, which we can still identify with in the recent lecture on psychology that we have had on self-concept. It, ultimately, cautions that such ignorance is an expensive affair due to the brevity of our lives, and thus urges us to begin returning to self-reliance and spiritual foundation, which we all would like to fit into our hectic activities.