Always question, but don't always seek the answer

As students, we are continually taught *cough* forced *cough* to seek the answers, this can create problems for intellectual types. There are questions in life that we cannot possibly know the answers to (what is the purpose of my life? who am I? What am I passionate about? Is this life over before it even began? How old is the milk in the fridge?) These questions cannot possibly be answered to their fullest black and white sharpness turned up to the max, extent like we are trained to know. So as professional question ask'ers (students) we go round and round feeling empty and defeated the deeper we question.


Some people attempt to answer these questions with their religious beliefs, with their personal beliefs, or just drink themselves stupid (frat frat frat)... but still these questions go unanswered. Have you noticed that a machine takes the place of where your imagination once lead you? Have you noticed that it slowly takes the place of you? The waves of reality slowly, but surely, crush you under. For this seemingly never ending cycle of questioning and seeking, I strongly suggest that we consider our relationship with the journey and the destination... and obviously turn to the classics. Cultivate that intellect baby!

Rainer Maria Rilke said to me back in 1903 "...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

A great way to feel alive is to create something! Music, painting, drawing, mechanical, whatever your muse is, do it.
Rainer Rilke; "Perhaps you do carry within you the possibility of creating and forming, as an especially blessed and pure way of living; train yourself for that but take whatever comes, with great trust, and as long as it comes out of your will, out of some need of your innermost self, then take it upon yourself, and don't hate anything.”

Everyone follows their dreams, I follow my waking intuition.
I want to live on fire. Passionate about something.
Paper heart. Paper tigers. Pour the gasoline, light the match and we'll see.