Everyone in this world seeks to believe in
something. It is a primaeval urge to discover the purpose of our being.
Subconsciously or consciously we yearn to know who we are or where we came from
and why we are here. Strangely without even realizing this to be so, this seems
to be the first questions we ask even as we first meet a stranger. What is your
name? Where are you from? Why should it matter where he or she is from? Why
can't we just begin talking? No, it is to see if that person had something in
common with us and in so doing for us to search for what will make for a good
conversation. I wouldn't want to pick up a conversation on rocket science when
I happen to meet a person who is a day labourer in a grocery store. Don't get me
wrong. I'm not discriminating. Yes, indeed that person may have an interest in
rocket science. But that would be one in a thousand, and that much probability
considerations I will have to give room for if am to not be sounding arrogant
or foolish. And so it is that we ask where are you from, and what do you do,
and when or why did you come to this place? All these are questions we ask as a
reference to our desire to know these same queries of ourselves.
This means we have an innate desire to know
these concerns about ourselves too. Deeper then is the desire to find and
believe something about ourselves. We ask questions to verify and validate our
assumptions. Do we fit into this way of thinking? All through our lives, we keep on
seeking the truth about ourselves. Some find it and take that path which seems
to be the one laid out for us and others retaliate even as they are on the
borderline of finding it. Perhaps these are the questions we continue to ask
for validation until we are satisfied. Some are easily satisfied and others go
on questioning ad-nauseum and still not find that comfort of acceptance. Some
go through their whole life-time not finding it. Some accept on blind faith and
some on an inkling of rationality and yet others with some inner acceptance
that the notion they came upon from this search is somehow acceptable. This
tells us that the myriad path to finding the object of our belief is varied
indeed. Evanescent for some and wholly real for others. Yet the reality remains
of the undeniable fact that we all seek this desire to believe in something.
It is this belief that energises us
ultimately to find the joy in life for as the seekers of the past put it. Joy
is manifest when one finds his purpose and puts it in the service of mankind.
That finding or assuredness is what gives us the feeling of being guided and
our hands held always. This is the confidence we all seek to actualize our life
dreams. It's no surprise then that we all seek to find the self-confidence to
do our things in life to its best. We go to school, do apprenticeships, read
books on how to do things, watch youtube from Ted talks to Yan can cook; all
about seeking the confidence to do something that we want to do. To learn from
others of past wisdom and awareness to get a head start in the collecting of
goods that will be meaningful to us on our journey to wherever we are going.
Surely this profound creation can't have just
sprouted up as a cosmic accident. All these wonders in our universe working in
perfect unison to make for the life we lead on this planet earth can't be on
it's own, given that we full well know that conflict is the way of our world and
no two people can work together for an extended period of time without getting
on each other's nerves even as every cell and organ in our body works 99.99 per cent of the time in complete unison; and that the 0.01 per cent of discord
that can happen is more often than not from our own foolish doing - as we seek
our so-called pleasure from the ways that upset the cosmic balance. The seasons
that change with cosmic precision or the blade of grass that grows with all its
microscopic metabolic organelles within it working in perfect order and
precision to give us that beautiful lawn where we spend many a joyous moment.
The multitudes of plants and animals that weave the web of life to make for our
mind-boggling ecosystem and our livable environment just happens? Surely, all
these can't be accidents or the continuing result of one? The cause must be
that destination we so fervently seek and want to be one with. That lap of comfort
that we seek from the time we left the lap of our mother to yet again be in
that lap of our creator.
That is why I believe. And perhaps many more
do so in this same vein. I can only conjecture. I am not unique and neither are
you either. We are all one - having emerged from that oneness and to be
returned to that oneness. What is to struggle against the churning waves but to
drown. To be seeking a uniqueness that is not ours is perhaps the source of
arrogance and thus conflict. That is what my belief says we must seek to
control or put way behind on the furthermost of our back burners. Only then can
we, as equal beings, seek to have peace on earth.
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