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Question
Read the question from the lesson. What do they imply?
What if we too had lived our lives, however short, to the fullest?
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Solution
The writer asks us to live our lives to the fullest, just like the hibiscus plant. The writer says that the hibiscus plant lives only a day, but it lives to the fullest by smiling in the sun and dancing in the wind. In the same way, we too should live our short lives to the fullest, living in the moment and in full splendour.
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