Letters Home: Section 1, Letter dated October 3

October 3
Katrina,



Answers, the human race seeks answers, inquisitive spirits searching for reason, solution, and change. From the time of birth, humans, being as we are, seek answers to unending questions. Humans wish to know how the world goes round and why it does so, why the sun rises in the east, why life exists and the reason for it, why do bad things happen, and why do we have to die. But, dearest Katrina, questioning is a two-edged blade, cutting through ignorance with one side to further science and cutting ourselves with the other as we search for answers that do not exist in the realm of the mortal.



Nature knows better. Nature cares not of why it is here on Earth or of why it was given an opportunity for life; rather, it spends its time soaking in the sun rays and enjoying the days, learning of growth and passing the wisdom in its life on to others as they grow. Nature asks but dwells not on questions of life and death; nature relishes the life it has while it has it. Nature wastes no energy trying to sort through unanswerable questions or pondering why the storms of life sometimes travel through; instead spending its energy living.



Perhaps nature has the truest of wisdom, the wisdom to respect the life we have now. As in many ways, humans could learn much from nature, the respect nature has for life often being a lesson eluding humans.



As humans search for answers, we spend our time--time that can never be returned to us--worrying about pasts we can never change and wondering about events beyond our control or consciousness. Yet, we search and we wait for answers to arrive and, meanwhile, our time slips away.



Humans should be living as nature, Sister, contemplating unanswerable questions but not submitting to them or allowing them to control our time. Time is the greatest commodity humans have; without time life is nothing, for time is the first requirement for change.



Always,
Christina





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