Stop Questioning, Start Living

By our very nature, we are problem solvers. A highly developed frontal lobe and pre-frontal cortex all but ensures that we will approach every obstacle as a problem to be solved. Yeah, I get it, this has worked out rather well for us, all things considered. But where it tends to be a detriment as opposed to a benefit though, is during the meta-cognition of metaphysical ideas or, to put it into a way that normal people can talk about it…when we become aware of our thinking about pretty serious abstractions like being, causality, time and space, etc. Trying to solve problems that are, by definition, just outside of our traditional frame of reference doesn’t just make it seem as though you’re running in place, it makes it seem as though you’re running in place with one of those weird altitude masks on but as opposed to making you feel like you’re asthmatic, it just makes you feel stupid. Once we stop approaching these fundamental questions about our nature and the nature of the world around us as problems that we’ll some day be able to solve…or questions to which one day our fancy human brains will afford us the answers, and begin to simply experience them as central components to our movement through this thing called life…only then will we be able to enjoy it and grow from all the little things that are not actually problems that need to be solved, but rather central components of reality that develop as we’re experiencing it. It’s peculiarly ours…embrace it.