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ESSAY ON LIFE
When we are having fun, time passes swiftly away. In contrast, when we have nothing to do, time hardly passes by. A second seems longer than a minute, a minute longer than an hour. However, 10 hours seem just 10 minutes when its fun, when we are engaged in something we enjoy doing. When we talk with a broader point of view, we say life is t short to live to the full if we are enjoying our life and still have millions of things we want to do but know we can’t because life’s just too short. But for someone who is not at all enjoying life or whatever he/she is doing, one is too afraid to live life to the full, life is too long. For such people, life could have been more fun had it been shorter. Interestingly, it seems they don’t know that life is until you live, when u don’t live u live like a breathing corpse. It is then not living a life because for wise men living is something totally different to staying alive. For them, life’s just too short to live.
All the organisms perform some basic functions to keep themselves alive. The basic functions performed by living organisms to maintain their life on this earth are called life processes.

The basic life processes common to all the living organisms are: Nutrition and Respiration; Transport and Excretion; Control and Coordination (Response to stimuli); Growth; Movement and Reproduction. The process of nutrition involves the taking of food inside the body and converting it into smaller molecules which can be absorbed by the body.

Respiration is the process which releases energy from the food absorbed by the body. Transport is the process in which a substance absorbed or made in one part of the body is moved to other parts of the body. Excretion is the process in which the waste materials produced in the cells of the body are removed from the body.

Control and coordination (or response to stimuli) is a process which helps the living organisms to survive in the changing environment around them. The process of

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