Who likes mysteries? Riddles? Puzzles? We like even the most incomprehensible phenomena. And whoever says that I sound like Sherlock, I will say “Yes”. You’re right. Although I do not identify with the same -special- love of the devilish detective for the element of the macabre surrounding his cases, I certainly have the same spirit of curiosity for research leading to answers to hitherto unanswered questions.

If we think about it, this applies to most people to a greater or lesser extent. Otherwise we wouldn’t be scientifically and technologically to today’s level. From the beginning of time, humans carry out research; at first, they have been searching perpetually for answers to practical problems, and later on to spiritual, religious and philosophical ones.

Generally, this research is an essential process for the emergence, composition and promotion of sciences, through which the improvement of humanity’s living conditions is attempted, in a broader sense. There are many people who limit this concept to scientific research developed by discipline, which is based on experimental methods or case verification. Of course, in many cases science investigates “blindly” with some confirmations that follow (the truth shall be told).

You might tell me “Come on, I could accept the practical stuff, we have to make sure somehow of our species’ survival and an ‘A’ quality of life, but why do we bother with the rest of it?”. Because we are multidimensional beings, not only with functional capabilities of Outlast survival level when we are asked (hopefully never). We have thoughts, emotions, hidden agendas and desires, I would say. And the latter ones are those urging us to acquire the functional capabilities for the more practical ones.

Since our first breath, everything around us is unknown; we are completely naked literally and metaphorically, with a fear rooted in our survival instinct towards the unknown. This survival instinct is what boosts us sometimes into searching for answers, and perhaps into researching this One Answer which would sort out the landscape of existing and would soothe us for the fear of the ultimate unknown, of death.

Fear of the unknown causes stress and since there are infinite possibilities that anything could happen out there, we usually go along with our fear’s object. But, as time goes by, instead of getting used to it, we fear it even more. It spreads as we mature and gain new experiences. An infant’s fear that is protected by its family in every step is not the same as the fear of adults responsible for their future.

Thus, exploring is our second nature, a good one in my opinion, because this world is so beautiful that it is worth seeing and filling your mind and heart with the magnificence and awe it offers. The difficult part comes to the questions’ adjuncts that could drive you crazy when thinking extremely about them and searching for everything, ever and everywhere.
For those tormenting, philosophically speaking, what I would suggest, which again is a humble opinion that you are free to ignore once you are done reading, is that there is no universal answer to all of this. And between us, it would make everything a little more boring, if there was one. However, there is an Answer for each of us, a completely personal one fitting to every soul out there better than a glove.

For Sherlock Holmes, for example, the Answer is to find answers to mysteries. For Hercules Poirot it is the little grey cells that always show the way. There is no right answer, because there is no wrong answer. The practical questions will be solved in some way or other by experiments and observation. Concerning the philosophical ones, it is up to each individual to find their own Answer that will offer remedy for their own soul.

Related Posts

Osmosis - TEDx AUTH
Read More
The Cleaningans - TEDx AUTH
Read More
lets-talk-about-comedy
Read More