Me ! nazim hikmet wrote: "living is no laughing matter: you must live with a great seriousness like a squirrel for example—i mean without looking for something beyond and above living, i mean living must be your whole occupation." explain, in at least one hundred words, how this quote relates to hikmet's unique experiences and point of view.

Hikmet was persecuted by the defenders of the monarchy and, therefore, sentenced to fifteen years in prison. This made him take refuge in the USSR.  This fact of his life related to the text displayed in the question can be interpreted that Hikmet believed that we should live without the concern of the results of our actions, but these actions should be taken seriously. To be thinking about the consequences of everything, we will not live fully, because life is not perfect and will not be.  So we should only worry about living, because bad things will happen anyway, so we should only think about having a purpose for life and living it in pursuit of that purpose, following our goals, seizing the opportunities and continuing to live when some adversity appears.

Hikmet was persecuted by the defenders of the monarchy and, therefore, sentenced to fifteen years in prison. This made him take refuge in the USSR.  This fact of his life related to the text displayed in the question can be interpreted that Hikmet believed that we should live without the concern of the results of our actions, but these actions should be taken seriously. To be thinking about the consequences of everything, we will not live fully, because life is not perfect and will not be.  So we should only worry about living, because bad things will happen anyway, so we should only think about having a purpose for life and living it in pursuit of that purpose, following our goals, seizing the opportunities and continuing to live when some adversity appears.

Explanation:

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.