In a moment of despair I had asked myself: ‘what are you doing here?’ And I answered: ‘you are posing the question.’
‘Life is easier amidst distractions.’ Marvin once said. ‘Questions pile up in solitude. Unanswerable questions of the eternal mysteries of life. Do we ask seeking solutions or merely to feel alive?’
It is when we are absorbed in nothingness that we start to contemplate our existence. Questions without answers annihilate the knowledge of the past and are skeptical of the wisdom of tomorrow.
‘Those who ponder lose their innocence. We are damned to question yet never to know.’ Leon’s unforgettable words.
Maybe the questions are our distractions in solitude. For a continuous search for purpose is better than not having a purpose at all.
What if we don’t all have a reason to be. I wonder how life would be without a purpose; nothing to pursue, nothing to expect, nothing to run after.
But then, there’s love. Prue would have answered.
It is the lack of purpose that sends us on the path of discovery; searching for reasons, meaning and answers. But the path might not lead to the expected destination. But how can we expect a certain outcome when walking the path of discovery? Happiness? There cannot be a universal meaning to happiness nor a path leading to it. Wisdom? Wisdom is subjective. Purpose leads to wisdom and emptiness that leads to philosophy is wisdom. Idleness that leads to creativity is wisdom. Wisdom is knowing that we cannot know.
Why insist on finding the answers when the questioning itself is what keeps you going?