Recalling the four lines.

Casting Crowns' "Who am I" is a song that I love since some years back when I then heard it. 

It's a beautiful song with a lot of emotions and meaning that I believe (almost) everybody can relate to, either philosophically or spiritually, toward 'life'.

What drew me towards the song were the lyrics of the first part of the chorus in particular which goes like ;-

"I am a flower quickly fading,

here today and gone tomorrow,

a wave tossed in the ocean,

the vapour in the wind."

(you can google or you tube the song)

Simple words formed into sentences that covey so much more than just an understanding of the subject, the time, the flower, ocean, vapour, wind, or the adjectives working along with it. 

Just as a flower which blooms to life and then withers away to the end of its existence, so do we. Much like the next line, we are simply 'here today and gone tomorrow' and like 'the vapour in the wind'. ~pfft~

I remember, once in the school's morning assembly, our principal had shared about making our life meaningful in whichever way possible, for life is too short and often taken for granted. Like how in a tombstone, the entire life of a human is summarised into a simple plain 'dash'. (eg; 1920 - 2013). This - (dash) is what sadly signifies the entire life of us, unless in the case of cremation where nothing but ashes be left.

Well, I will abruptly end here like the 'pfft' of the wind.