Opening the Box

Then nothing….

It is like opening up a beautifully wrapped birthday or Christmas present, to find an intriguing box under the wrapping paper that displays no clue as to what it may contain, then opening the box to find… nothing.

Just an empty box.

There is so much that is like that in life: religion, ideology, and all such dreams of a better life; so many of them turn out to be just a prettily wrapped box that when you open them up there is nothing inside. All the questions about how to live your life are not answered inside any of those boxes that are so often given as an answer to all that troubles you.

Eventually, there should come a time when you learn to distrust all such neatly-packed solutions to anything. There are no simple answers, often there are no complicated answers either, just more questions.

The thing is, though, that eventually it becomes clear that it is the questions that keep us moving on, the answers in the boxes are all wrong because they are answers, because they are not further questions.

Without the further questions to lead us on we stop, stagnate and die. We need the questions, the unknown, the mystery, to guide us on, to see what is around the next corner of this maze of life, and it is the questions that move us on, not the false answers that these religions, ideologies and systems purport to give us.