Books have
always proved themselves to be our best companions, and have not only opened realms
of knowledge and wisdom, but have
introduced us to great fantasy worlds, experiences and values that stay with us as
long as our heart beats.
It broadens
our perspective of life which makes us question a little more, fathom the depth
a little more, scratch under the surface a little more and rationalise a little
more.
But there
are such faction of words that group together to form a question, which we
spent our entire lives seeking for the answer.
Then there
are some questions which do not have a particular answer known and even if we
know ,it may vary from person to person like, when will I be happy? Even if I
am then for how long? Am I content with what I have achieved? Have I achieved
the internal peace I thought I would? Does everything I hope lead to
accomplishment of my desires?
As simple as
all of these might sound the real complexity of life lies in answering them. It
may happen that answering one of these would add a whole new level of intricacy
to the other as none of these question are really simple. They are layered as,
if one is not happy he is also believed to be discontent which also leads to
another question, what is the cause of this unhappiness? Finding answer to this
question holds the potential to disturb any one‘s internal peace, it might even
shatter the hopes that keeps us going in life.
So what is the
solution to the ultimate question i.e. life?
As said by a renowned writer “a life that lacks motive lacks meaning”.
The pursuit
of happiness is exclusive to everyone. But we as humans have the potential to
either glorify or ruin something. We are endowed with the power to think but
our own trait of overthinking leads to major problems in our lives, ruining the
happiness of today and the hope for tomorrow. We start comparing ourselves to
everyone henceforth grows a seed of jealousy amid ourselves causing a whole
havoc for our mental peace. Seeing another person content with his life we
begin to desire for more, eventually leading to a more stressful life and hence
the cycle continues.
In the book Looking for Alaska by John Green there is one such
question which has wedged me the most. I always find myself lurking over it
again and again:
HOW
WILL WE EVER GET OUT OF THIS LABYRINTH OF SUFFERING?
Our whole
life is maze and each day when we go in that wide world we search our way out
of that maze. Some of us confine ourselves into one corner and pretend it does
not exist. To pretend that they are not lost but home, but that only leads to a
life without any thrill of knowing what will be waiting for us at the corner of
the road. There are many of us who fear to seek the answers to that question
because it leads a way out of our shell of comfort or maybe we are not ready to
go to that part of our brain in which we have stacked all our worst fears which
may come true in search of that question and we are not yet ready to find it.
But there are times in our life when we
have to come face to face with that question and there will be NO way to run
away and hide in the corner. We will have to take charge and become that maze
runner who at the end of the day finds the way out.
So readers WHAT IS YOUR MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION
which thrives you to get out of the box of your comfort zone and to find the
answer which encourages you to be your best self.
SHREYA TANDON
