SEEKING W

ONDER

What makes you wonder and awe? Like what brings your soul to wonder, a spark to your soul? Are these things you think about and work toward? Do you think of the universe and the stardust that becomes the elements that make us up? Does listening to classical piano music invoke the intellectual intrigue to the universe around you? I am just full of questions tonight.

To be honest, I could continue to ask questions. I am a very curious, but cautious person. Which seems like a bit of a conundrum - but that is me, nonetheless. There must have been a time or two in past columns that are filled with my fascination with the constructs of our known universe and all that could be out there. So, maybe there is one supporting piece of evidence that shows my curiosity is more one of the mind, soul and intangible items - ones that are not known to us yet.

When I find myself working on my studies and conversions of binary into known letters in our alphabet to decode, among other various computer software and hardware components, sometimes my mind feels as if it is opening. More room to encompass all that it needs to. Does that ever happen to you? When you are working on something that you just find that you are truly flowing with.

Maybe that is just how my mind works. Maybe that is my sense of flow state. What brings you to a flow state? If you don’t know, are you willing to do some mad searching inwards to feel it out? Will you have the same passion or more that you do for your loved ones achieving their goals, for yourself?

If you are concerned with me just asking you all the questions, well don’t be. I am asking these same questions to myself. Especially the last one - “Will you have the same passion or more that you do for your loved ones achieving their goals, for yourself?”

I don’t skimp out on the harder questions that I ask myself. If you don’t have a sense of self-regulation and accountability, then you must start. It is a factor in being a human adult. Do you agree? Did you think I was done asking questions?

Do you ask a lot of questions yourself? Who was it that said, “…question everything?” George Carlin was quoted, “Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.” I do remember my father always telling me to always keep my curious mind and question everything so maybe it was from him as well.

Truly being curious about that bigger picture but yet also the little nuances is very important to expanding your knowledge.

For on your quest for one answer, will you find an answer to a question that you haven’t even asked yet.

SAMANTHA Y OCIUS CREATIVE MEDIA

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