Taking Chances With Answers

Answers are often harder to accept than they are to find. And yet we keep demanding them.

We have a need to know why, what and how. Often, though, that need can extend beyond natural curiosity to self-destruction. There is a tendency to analyse beyond the point of reason.

It’s when a thought becomes an obsession that we find ourselves on a very dangerous path. We all have a limited capacity for self-generated doubt and confusion. Anxiety is fed by what is happening inside of us fuelled by what we are witnessing outside of us.

The answers we seek are not always immediately obvious or available. Some things take time. Fear is all too often fuelled by ignorance. A lack of clarity can become a weapon we use against our own sanity.

Knowing when to let go and let be takes practice. Patience is much more than a virtue, it’s a survival tool.

All too often we know the answers well before we set on the quest to find them. What we know and what we are prepared to do with what we know sits in the gap between calmness and calamity.

The first places to search are our head and our heart. We are wiser and more knowledgeable than we give ourselves credit for being. And the answers we find are not always the answers we we seeking.