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To Be As We Are

‘Why am I what I am?’

What a question, an unanswerable query that dips and feints at any advance that one may put forth in the hopes of an answer. And more often than not, we demand that answer. We direct our steps in the rhythm to the chanting question, ordering the world to deliver the mind from beneath the weighted oppression of the confusion. ‘Why’ is the biggest blinder. We expect there to be an answer behind it, expecting because it is a question that there will be a resolution to it. We never stop to admire that it just is. It is what it is. Not why is it what it is. Yet we still seek that explanation, we pursue it in every occasion, looking beneath the unturned and the shadowed.  

Why do we question what we are? Do the clouds wonder why they are clouds? Does the Blue Jay ask himself ‘why am I a blue jay and not a mouse’? Does the river ever lament ‘Oh, why can I never rest’? Does the moon ever wonder why it must bow to the sun? Or the sun ever worry over its charges beneath the moon’s watch?

Can the blue jay change what he is because he wonders why he is? Why are we so discontent with what we are when the world around us is content to do what it was designed to do? This question, observed and now understood, was not a will that demanded outright, more like a concept that had broken free and began to crave what it had never been made to own.

Answers were never ours. By birthright, our being should have been answer enough. But it is not. So where do we draw the line? In what ways do we learn to curve questioning? Questioning is good, it creates depth and depth leads to refined perspective and perspective becomes time, and change. We can be weighed with that.

‘Why am I what I am?’

We can learn from the imperfection that is nature. Learn that the things around us are explanation enough. It is not equally known, though within easy reach, that the fortitude of the mind is thus persuaded by the things that inspire true awe. And awe comes from the thing in which have a creation far outside our own design. Maybe therein lays our answer.
The answer is us.
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