Perhaps

 As simple as it sounds, reading is pathway to unknown and the known, yet we never quite embrace it the way we should. Our lives are driven by the data that is fed to us through the series that we watch which are suggested mostly by the few people around us, the news or media that is pumped to our feed through algorithms driven to keep us hooked, the dreams that were sold to us since our childhood, books that are sold to us to perhaps improve our productivity, the list goes on...

Somewhere down the line we do realise we are a part of the trap that was set for us even before we were born, yet we refuse to take the 'red pill' afraid that we might end up in something unknown and the desire to belong keeps us happily part of the system.

Yet do we truly ask ourselves, what is happiness to us? More importantly are we left with the time to ask ourselves some questions that are important to us. Are there things that may really make us happy perhaps ecstatic? Do we not owe it to the existence which has provided us the opportunity to be born, that we explore beyond the mundane and find a reason of our existence? 

Perhaps there is no reason at all, perhaps life itself is an illusion and no virtue matters anyway, perhaps it's absurd and everything is planned already or perhaps there is something more, perhaps....

The simplest way of at least giving a thought to the idea of existence and making sense of the chaos is by reading good texts or books. Let them be your guide..

I started my journey of questioning when I was introduced to the Bhagvad Gita, read it as a friendly banter between two friends, a confused one and another wiser one. Let your 'perhaps', give you better questions and the path shall take you further. If the Gita is too much, I shall recommend video lectures by a learned wise man who has helped me with the right interpretations of the scripture, search for lectures in English on the channel, do not let the language barrier stop you, the knowledge of Gita transcends all the barriers

Link: (36) acharya prashant gita 1 - YouTube (Hindi)

Bing Videos (English)

As Dr Richard Feynman says:“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”

Cheers and keep loving life!