Question about Question...



"Spiritually speaking, what do you do when questions no longer inspire you?" I quote this one from one of the contributors of Yahoo Answer named "Just Be."

It's just a simple question - not inspiring, though, thought-provoking. Somehow if one will think of it, you will really ponder what if, indeed, questions will no longer inspire you? /Ms./Mrs./Mr. Just Be is only asking this in the context of how he indulges himself/herself in answering or posting questions on Yahoo Answers. However, on my part, this question also hovers to my own individual deeds as i try to venture on my own life's exploration. I usually go to this web site just to scan questions of no-where-to-be-found, none sense, not-so-nonsense, and sensible ones. Maybe because I'm a type of person who has a lot of questions to offer "to my own consumption," that's why this question poses chastisement on my kinda bewildered (in the sense of leaving the formation i had) but exhilarating journey of life.

Pondering... what if indeed, questions will no longer give impression on you? Questions like... What is my purpose in life? Is there God? What am i living for? Is there life after death? Why is there no Justice? Why is there no Peace? Is there salvation? Why i have to suffer? Why the death of my beloved ones? Why ...why ...and why...?

A Person asks because he wants to know something. And that something somehow gives explanation in which may be beneficial or non-beneficial to himself. This is expressed in a communicative way to a person or to a certain situation where the one asking can extract information. "A certain situation" because sometimes you ask question to yourself without the presence other person/s, or to a certain phenomenon, scenario, circumstances. You are inquiring something to the things ambivalent to you. And by way of trying to throw these questions to yourself, that means you are capable of answering and discovering what seems to be unclear. But not all the time you can always find answers. That is why you keep on asking and asking until you ran out of questions. And if i may say, after you ran out of questions, this is where the role of Spirituality comes in. When life turns out to be so unfair of the things you may want to know - there you will find the wisdom of the things you ought to know not. When situation grabs you of the knowledge which leads you to liberation - there you will find the freedom of innocence. When circumstances exhaust you of everything you can have - there you will see the richness of nothingness.

I am not saying that we have to stop asking, because if we do, it is also like depriving us of who we really are. This is what differs us from any other creatures. This only shows, however, how limited we are and yet can be limitless at the same time.

Health and Blessings



-melskiens-

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