The Page Turner

Hello and welcome back to my blog. In this post I’m going to be exploring the importance of questions and answers, and why I, personally, like the former more.

Is it better to know the solution of every question, or to be kept wondering, and exploring possibilities? When I ask questions, knowing that I’ll find the answer is comforting, but knowing that the question is answerless, open ended, subject to many different possibilities, is, in my opinion, more freeing. This is because you can bring life to the question, inspect it from many different angles, and then decide what your answer will be. Answers themselves can be factual, and correct, but it cancels out the fact that all of the unknown is a question waiting to be explored. Instead of trying to understand everything, I think we should accept the fact that we simply and physically can’t, but what we can do is ask more questions, as a way of delving deeper in the possibilities pool (but not as a way of probing the people around you with endless inquiries!)

It’s a bit like a hard maths equation. When you’re stuck on a question, instead of looking at the answer sheet and doing it the conventional way, you could ask yourself questions: Are you reading it wrong, or can you add the numbers in a different way? In this form, you are broadening your mind, by asking your brain to go to the depths of suggestions, which is a lot better than poring over sheets of printed numbers. The answers give you clarity, but questioning them presents you with a sense of open ends, infinite answers. Questions keep you thinking for longer, and give you a taste of what every single aspect looks like.

Every great creator, be it an author, or an inventor, started off with questions. You don’t know how far the possibilities of the world can stretch to unless you ask yourself how far it goes. Questions shape up everything; it’s only because you ask them that you get the answers. Most of what we have today is due to the fact that we asked questions, what ifs. They led to more questions, more ways to find different answers. The wide Earth itself is an enormous question comprising of different factors, just waiting to be found. What is the use of the answers we have right now, if they don’t help us on our quest to solve the unsolvable, to learn anything new from what we already know?

With every question being answered, it sparks up at least a dozen more. Each day is filled with its own special uniqueness, its own question. Millions get answered every day, and more are left to be pondered over, tried with new methods, and, eventually, cleared to make room for more puzzles. When you answer a question, you can work on that question no longer, but keeping them, and answering more, brings life to the mind, and joy to the brain. I know that I would much rather imagine my way through questions rather than find their answer and be done with it. I feel that every type of answer (apart from the maths ones) is just a temporary pause to a question, and that many more answers could follow.

I hope you enjoyed my blog about questions and answers. Perhaps you’ve found that you have some questions yourself! Please have a look at my other posts and the ones to come, and additionally to comment your views on the topic!, and additionally to comment your views on the topic. Bye!