Life's a funny proposition after all

Once again I was cleaning out my computer (for the 20^th time) and I found this song of a musical I’ve never heard or seen but the lyrics caught my attention the first time I read them.
So here it is – read carefully and then read my comments on it.

"Life's a funny proposition after all"
(Musical “Little Johnny Jones” 1904)
Music and Lyrics by George M. Cohan

Verse 1
Did you ever sit and ponder,
Sit and wonder, sit and think,
Why we're here and what this life is all about?
It's a problem that has driven
Many brainy men to drink,
It's the weirdest thing they've tried to figure out.
About a thousand diff'rent theories
All the scientists can show,
But never yet have proved a reason why
With all we've thought
And all we're taught,
Why all we seem to know
Is we're born and live a while and then we die.

Refrain 1
Life's a very funny proposition after all,
Imagination, jealousy, hypocrisy and all.
Three meals a day, a whole lot to say;
When you haven't got the coin you're always in the way.
Ev'rybody's fighting as we wend our way along,
Ev'ry fellow claims the other fellow's in the wrong;
Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call.
Life's a very funny proposition after all.

Verse 2
When all things are coming easy, and when luck is with a man,
Why then life to him is sunshine ev'rywhere;
Then the fates blow rather breezy and they quite upset a plan,
Then he'll cry that life's a burden hard to bear.
Though today may be a day of smiles, tomorrow's still in doubt,
And what brings me joy, may bring you care and woe;
We're born to die, but don't know why, or what it's all about,
And the more we try to learn the less we know.

Refrain 2
Life's a very funny proposition, you can bet,
And no one's ever solved the problem properly as yet.
Young for a day, then old and gray;
Like the rose that buds and blooms and fades and falls away,
Losing health to gain our wealth as through this dream we tour.
Ev'rything's a guess and nothing's absolutely sure;
Battles exciting and fates we're fighting until the curtain falls.
Life's a very funny proposition after all.

So life’s a funny proposition after all – what does it propose? What is there to win? What is there to lose? Many people have thought about it and not many have come to a right conclusion I dare say most of them have got it wrong.So what is there to life? I was thinking and there are two phrases of this song in which I wanna ponder about.

1. Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call. Life's a very funny proposition after all. Funny thing how we worry and hurry through life to get to our end. How many times this week have you stopped to look up and just stare at the moon and stars, maybe just stop and look how awesome snow is or maybe just the tree outside your house. How many times this week have you worried about your future? How many times have you hurried to go to places where you don’t really want to be? Do you worry for things that won’t matter in eternity?

2. Though today may be a day of smiles, tomorrow's still in doubt, And what brings me joy, may bring you care and woe; We're born to die, but don't know why, or what it's all about, And the more we try to learn the less we know. Two things are interesting here: first life changes, situations change and quite dramatically most of the time. Like the Bible says “Life is like a vapor that comes and vanishes” and we better make it be worthwhile. Life isn’t something static, it moves and it changes and it finishes, and us we gotta be ready for all that. But my final question is, were we really born to die? Are our questions suppose to have no answers? Well I don’t think so, life isn’t the outcome of mistakes and luck, life isn’t just there. I believe the Creator has got explanations for all your questions, I believe we all have a purpose to serve whole we live... I know what you’re thinking, well you gotta believe that, you gotta have faith to agree with that and yes I do believe and I do have faith in that and trust me it works and it makes more sense than any other thing you can think of.

But at the end it’s your choice and it’s your life – life is a funny proposition after all.