Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Have you ever gone a day?


Have you ever gone a day where all you spoke were questions?  Is this even possible?  Do you think it is?  For instance, I am currently watching it snow and I like it, but why do I like it?  And furthermore, what causes snow?  Why are flakes big sometimes but small other times?  Why is snow white?  Isn't it just frozen water?  Isn't water clear and or colorless?  Can you imagine if for one day, one full day, how different conversations and communications would be if all that was spoke were questions.  What if when you ate your favorite meal from your favorite restaurant, rather than just basking in it's flavor glory you asked what ingredients were involved in it's making?  What if when someone gave you their advice on a situation that you didn't ask for, you asked them why they think that or how did they come to that advisory conclusion?  What if before you bought your last gift for Christmas you asked yourself why you were buying it?  Were you buying it because you liked it?  Were you buying it because you knew without a doubt that the recipient would like it?  Was it purchased because 'we are told that we have to buy things and or give gifts for Christmas because of tradition'.  Where did that tradition even start?  Do you even like that tradition?  Will that tradition ever come to an end and a new tradition based upon a new circumstance and new stories ever begin?  Correct me if I am wrong but Christmas is a Holiday started by people to celebrate the birth date of Jesus Christ, but how do we know when this date was?  Haven't scholars found it to be closer in date to mid-September?  Why then do we celebrate it late December?  Why doesn't the whole world celebrate Christmas?  Maybe an even better question, because some questions may be unanswerable, is why do you celebrate certain Holidays?  Why does one celebrate Thanksgiving?  Is it because of the Pilgrims?   Or what Christopher Columbus did?  Or maybe because of the discovery of America?  But weren't there already people in America when America was discovered?  What do you think?  Why do you celebrate anything?  Is it because someone at some point in time told you to do so, or is it because of a feeling, belief, desire, thought, or knowledge within yourself that drives you to celebrate?

What are you doing right now?  What are you thinking about right now?  If you wrote down your last 10 thoughts on paper, what would they be?  Can you even remember your last ten thoughts?  Are you even thinking?  Is it possible to not think?  Is it possible to not do anything, for even a second?  Why do billions and billions of people speak differently, think differently, act differently, play differently, create differently, drive differently, walk differently, look differently, listen differently, have sex differently, see differently, and taste differently?  Are there even possible answers to such questions?  If not, why do so many insist on giving answers.  Is silence a good enough answer?  Is wonder within the present energy a good enough answer.  Do answers even change the reality at hand?  What if rather than seeing difference, we saw variety?  What if humans saw the world as One Unique Sameness with many colors, forms, dialects, creations, art forms, and uniqueness's that all speak the same thing just in various forms?  

Why is this the most difficult blog post that I have written?  Is it because I am not giving my incredibly limited skew of reality through opinions of mine own  to the vastly large and never ending technological world?  Or am I still stating some of my incredibly limited skews of reality through opinions, but just in a different form?  Is it possible to withhold ones incredibly limited skew of reality through opinions at all?  I don't know, do you?

What if the word conclusions ceased and the word inquiry prevailed?  What if the thought of judgement subsided and the thought of curiosity was created?  Would life be different?  Would you be different?  What do you think?

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