Maybe I should live in the woods and write blogs all day long.

Maybe I should become the next anti-guru.

Maybe I should wash windows in Bangalore.

Maybe I should change my name to MaybeIShould.

Maybe.

Because: who knows?

How do we know ANYTHING for sure?

Before I learned to peacefully relax in ignorance, not knowing was my biggest fear.

If there was a corner somewhere, I wasn’t wiling to go there and take a peek.

Safety was my first priority.

But it’s not knowledge or hoarding facts that we truly want: it’s the idea of control.

If we just know enough, we’ll be able to outsmart life.

To be ahead of the game.

We may be able to avoid disasters and heartaches and (emotional) bankruptcy.

We can cut corners, or even live in a world without them.

Right.

Of course the beautiful irony is that by putting our trust in knowledge and nothing but knowledge, we start to fear anxiety, and get controlled by our obsession with control.

Whatever it is we don’t know, freaks us out.

And eventually we’ll realize that The Big Unknown is exactly what life is about.

Beauty is temporary, just like everything else.

Safety is just a soothing idea from the mind.

We can’t avoid anything (and we shouldn’t want to): there’s no such thing.

Things either happen, or they don’t.

You score a goal, or you don’t (there’s no such thing as ‘an almost goal’ or ‘a near goal’).

You live fully and with your heart wide open and explore every single corner that is out there waiting there for you, or you don’t.

Maybe you should stop wanting to know, right now.

Maybe.

 

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