Questions

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Even on an average day there are so many questions!
Questions that are being asked of us ~ and those questions that we would like to ask ~ or at least discover the answer to...

From a true spiritual perspective, there is ~ arguably ~ only one question: “What is the meaning of life?”
And while that is an universal question that we all would like the answer to; it seems that the answer to this particular question ultimately is more of a personal process of discovery, rather than a ‘one size fits all’ answer...

But that leaves all those simple, ‘every-day questions’...

In a sense the easy ones are the questions about the things that need to get done: “What is on the agenda?”, “Do I have any appointments for today?” ~ and even when that doesn’t seem to be the case, there is always the question: “Is there anything that really needs to get done today?”
Of course that can be anything from getting the kids ready to get to school to walking the dog, or cleaning the bathroom...

There are the questions about timing: “Will I get there in time if I leave now?” type of questions.

And then there are the questions about small things, like: “What color clothes will I wear today?”, “Will I go grocery shopping today or will I leave it for tomorrow?”, or “What will I cook for dinner tonight?”.

Whether you look at these simple questions as true questions, or tend to see them as the choices you have in your daily life ~ the fact of the matter is that over the course of a day a lot of them come up! And while the answers ~ or choices ~ may not have an ‘earth shattering’ quality to them; without reaching conclusions on each of them we wouldn’t get anything done! We would stop in our tracks...

When you really get to the nitty-gritty of the questions in your life ~ or the choices that are to be made ~ even every next step you take has a question associated with it: “What direction will I take my next step in?”. Both literally and figuratively.

Just looking at all these simple questions seems trivial, doesn’t it?

The thing that is interesting about them ~ at least to me ~ is that we tend to answer a lot of those simple questions geared to something outside of ourselves. We make our choices ~ even, or perhaps especially, on a fundamental level like this ~ often based on what others expect us to do.

It makes me wonder what the answers to all those questions would be if they were found bearing in mind what is best for ourselves...
If we would start doing that, would all those questions still be there ~ or would they disappear altogether?
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