1/ The unanswered question.
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9/ We will build lives, a past and a future around the unanswered question. We will create our fences, our homes our gardens around it.
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10/ We will secretly envy those who could obey that unknown urge and sought to answer it. We will label them reckless and imprudent fools.
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11/ We will be glad to see the failings of those who sought to answer the unanswered question. We will feel justified, if only for a while.
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12/ We will not admit to our own inadequacy & weakness. We won't address our own failings; we will prefer life with the unanswered question.
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13/ "But why?" a child will ask. And we will answer them. We will give a laborious explanation, a comprehensive "answer" to the question.
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14/ Yet if we were honest we would reply to the child that we have no answer, and can only offer an explanation for why we don't.
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15/ Life is reserved for those who would answer the unanswered question, despite knowing full well that it will forever remain unanswered.
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16/ "But why, then?" the child will ask again. The only answer given by those have attempted an answer is "You must find out for yourself."
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17/ FIN/ The great American composer Charles Ives has a piece of the same name. If you haven't, listen to it. As always, thanks for reading.
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When we loan our happiness (from others by getting validation through imitation, or from our future through safety), credit always comes due
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