I’m 31 years of age as of the moment I’m writing this.
I have spent 31 years of my life trying to figure things out, attempting to understand the deep inner workings of the universe and the strange circumstances we all find ourselves in.
What strange circumstances?
Here’s a few off the top of my head.
We’re floating on a spinning blue rock in space.
Our minds process information at a lightning fast speed.
We can TALK. Think about that for a second. You don’t even have to think about talking. You can just do it.
Our bodies are constantly working unconsciously to keep us alive.
Almost all of us carry a computer in our pocket that is thousands and thousands of times more advanced and smaller than computers that existed just a few decades ago.
And it’s not just a computer – it’s a phone, it’s a web browser, it’s a camera, it’s a digital music or art creation device…
And most of those computers can somehow translate your finger tapping on a piece of glass or plastic as an ‘input’ and then instantaneously respond.
Think about that for a second.
Think about some of the things that we just take for granted as “normal” and realize how precisely NOT “normal” they are.
When I ask someone how something works, I’m usually presented with a very matter-of-fact answer.
“Oh, the transistors process this and the electrodes process that and then our Bluetooth nodes wirelessly project blah blah blah…”
None of those types of answers actually satisfy my question of…”Yeah, but HOW?”
I suppose I’m just at a point in my life where I am attempting to recapture the child-like wonder and awe of the world around me.
The people who seem to be the power-brokers of our planet are often the ones who have created a massive illusion around them; the illusion that they have everything figured out.
At 31 years of age, I can firmly say that just about the only thing that I have figured out is how little I actually have figured out.
Sometimes I just sit and look down at my hands and move them slowly, wondering about the intricacies of how it all works.
We are very fascinating creatures and I’m at a point in my life where I have to stop pretending that I know everything.
I believe if we are all honest with ourselves that we would arrive at the same conclusion: we have the same questions deep down that every person who has come before us has had.
“Does any of it even matter?”
For me, I have had to make the decision to forgo a large number of the doctrines, mindsets and traditions that were handed to me over the years.
I have gleaned a lot of wisdom from those who have come before me, both in learning what to do and a whole lot of what NOT to do.
But at the end of the day, I’ve come to a place where instead of allowing someone else to tell me what it is that I’m “supposed to” be doing, I have chosen to take the hard road of figuring that out for myself.
It’s easy to go to a business, political or religious meeting and have some charismatic speaker tell you all of the things that you ought to be doing with your life.
Heck, I’ve been that guy different times.
It’s easy to get people to follow you when you have become a master at making it look like you’ve got all your shit together.
It is a lot harder to be vulnerable and admit how little you actually do know.
It’s much more difficult to bare your soul and your insecurities and let those around you become aware that you’re struggling to figure something (or everything) out.
But for me, I have found a strange paradoxical peace in doing so.
I no longer feel the pressure to be the go-to answer guy that I used to be.
I don’t feel like it’s my responsibility to get anyone to believe anything the way that I do.
Part of that comes from realizing that most days, I don’t even really know what I believe – let alone trying to convince someone else of it!
So that’s what I mean when I say that we don’t really know anything.
We are all in this together – and it has taken me a long while to arrive at some of these conclusions – but I do believe that great days are ahead as more and more of us recapture the wonder that we used to have about the world around us.
As far as I see it anyway, it is in the midst of that wonder and that curiosity that incredible things are discovered.
Search on, dear traveller.
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