The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born? Where is your home?
Where are you going? What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and
watch your answers change.
That is from one of my favourite books, Illusions by Richard Bach. I love that book. No matter how many times I read it, it makes me think.
There are so many answers to each of those questions, simple as they seem. The ones I am currently preoccupied with are What are you doing? Where are you going?
What am I doing? Where am I going? And, maybe the bigger question is does it matter? Does it matter what I am doing or where I am going? Does it matter if I don’t know the answers?
The trajectory of my life is changing with every moment that passes – every choice I make. Some of the most mundane choices can influence the most profound changes.
So, I wonder – what am I doing? What choices will I make today and where will they take me?
Interesting! I haven’t read the book, but maybe I should. I ask myself the same questions all the time… Where am I going and what am I doing? Maybe I should stop worrying and wondering and just go with the flow… I’ll find out where I’m going when I get there!
I highly recommend it. It influenced me a lot. Richard Bach has a fascinating perspective on life and things. He has written a bunch of books – One is another fave.
Oh, I like this. It fits so well with all my own thoughts on self-discovery right now. Lindsay at A Design So Vast recently wrote a post that sparked a discussion about how we have been changed by the choices we have made. I think about this a lot. Where would I be now if I had done any one thing different. I’m not sure how helpful it is to muse about such things, but I do believe that we are better prepared because of the learning and understanding.
Ooh, I’m going to dig up that post of hers.
This is a theme that Bach makes so clear to me in One. It is a novel that lays out out how the choices the characters have made changed their lives – and they go and visit their other selves to see where a different choice would have taken them. So fascinating.
Have you seen the movie Sliding Doors? It addresses how one simple thing can change everything, and follows the character along both trajectories.
Those questions are the ones we need to ask ourselves frequently… thanks for the reminder
I like simple questions…I like simple everything.
Mary
P.S. I was born in North Carolina