The Answer

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Every once in a while I ponder the question if there is ‘An Answer’. Just one answer. In a sense ‘The Answer’.
I know from experience that most problems ~ or challenges, or obstacles ~ have multiple solutions. I have also come to the conclusion that at least in my own life, those challenges usually appear when I start looking at only one direction, just one way in which to make something happen...
Which can be frustrating when right when I think I have figured it out ~ it doesn’t happen.

Reflections like this lead me to think that there really is no such thing as ‘The Answer’.

There seem to be way too many variables: attitude, life experience, desired outcome, the things you believe to be possible, and so on...
And each of these are unique, individual, and therefore different for each person.

Looked at from the spiritual perspective that we are all here to walk our personal paths, to unfold our greatest potential, and to grow as a spiritual being ~ one might say that any reply coming close to being ‘The Answer’ is facilitating those things in your life...
It could well be that those responses could come in unexpected ways, at ~ viewed from our mundane perspective ~ inopportune times, and by unpredictable means.

And, again from the spiritual point of view, once we learn how to cope with this way of getting information, one could say that the more possible answers there are, the better it is! Because each different answer can at least lead to a new way to reach a solution ~ yet they may even lead you to multiple solutions!

On the other hand it seems that a lot of people are looking for the one answer.
And more often than not they seem to have this answer already in mind when they ask the question. In other words, the only answer you can ever give that is the ‘right answer’ for them ~ is the answer that they have already stuck in their minds.

This is an almost impossible position to be in.
If your answer ~ no matter how valid and well thought out ~ doesn’t match what they have in mind; it will be considered a ‘bad answer’. Yet if you do go along with it and give the answer you are expected to give it may not lead to the desired solution ~ making your answer ‘wrong’.

The truth is that if you are looking for a predetermined answer in any other situation than in a quiz ~ you are not asking a question; you are posing a demand.
And to that demand you are not really expecting an answer; you are awaiting agreement.
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