8/27/2008

Nonsensical?

Why is it that we insist, and I do mean “we” for it is my plot as well, in making sense of life – our life? Making sense of it all is a feeble attempt to remove the inherent mystery of life. Life does not ‘make sense’ if we mean by such rhetoric that life can be fully understood and explained in the same manner one might give directions to a favorite restaurant.

Myth, mystery, paradigm are words more akin to describing life, one’s life, one’s journey. Yet, we persist in trying to explain and reason our way through this existence and hope that we can find enough solidity so we may linger for another moment in the vain and frail belief of a life that makes sense. When in fact, are we not confounded by our attempts at truth and fact?

We are left with nothing more than the necessity of surrender as we fall into the chasm that reason cannot grasp and find there not a plummet to the death, but rather a descent of rapturous delight engulfing the senses that plays ever so amusingly with our spirit and carries us aloft, not down, and sets us once again on the seemingly solid ground of tomorrow. There we can imagine that we are secure, safe, and reasonable – until life comes passing again and we are unable to understand, forced to believe in and then against reason, again.

Ours is a riotous ride of delight.

3 comments:

  1. Man first to comment again :)

    When I read your blog I thought of this bible scripture:

    Ecclesiastes 7:14

    When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future.


    -Taylor

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  2. We try to make sense of life because otherwise we must accept the "bad" things that happen to us in life are, to quote Calvin & Hobbes,"Either mean or arbitrary. Either way, I'm spooked."

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  3. Taylor - wonerful passage. I haven't read that one in a while.

    Dena - careful. i thought you were actually offering a 'serious' comment for a second...wait...humor can be serious...right?

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