I love reading murder mysteries. My favorite is Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective Hercules Poirot. What I love about the books is the revelation of the kill. The author sets up a stage where all characters are together and through a method of assumption and elimination Poirot arrives at the method, the motive and the killer.
In life we all wish that we had a similar round up that would simply just explain why it is that we are here? If only life was as simple as an Agatha Christie’s novel. How utterly non complex life would be if we could just answer all our questions through a method of assumption and elimination.
People in quest for the answer take 2 paths. One is they spend their life questioning everything. They live in constant quest for solutions. Schools inbreed in us a sense that there always has to be a right and wrong answer. As a result we often spend countless hours debating in our minds about what is black or white.
Others go to the other extreme and live life to the fullest, excepting it with all its intricacies. They are happy with the fact that they don’t know what the future holds and are not really sure what their past means because they spend their lifetime only living in the present.
But there is another path… One where you simply accept life as a mystery you will never solve. When the greatest scientists are unable to solve the mystery of cancer or the universe you simply just accept it for what is while you learn and experience everything you can about it. As a person you accept your past though painful for what is was. You accept the decisions you make and though some may not be the best. You accept relationships, failed and successful because each gave you a gift.
By accepting you choose the middle road between both paths. You live your life in constant wonder of the beauty that surrounds you and at the same time you spend time pondering over the mysteries of the world…without too much expectation of an answer. Perhaps children have it right. Wonder is the most beautiful answer to the mystery of life.
2 comments:
I think it was Shaw who said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." So the Middle ground may not be in the collective good... That being said Most of the greatest minds of this world were social idiots. So to live a life that is full, there is a balance that needs to be found.
Loved the piece...Cheers!
Hey Lily, this blog is in existance and should be for all the right reasons :)
U have sown the seed...your imagination and intuition is fertile truly....now just water it daily..
And before we know it...flowers would blossom...go on Lily...gr8 post...keep it up...
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