Ain't about answers

We're all looking. For something. Yes, it sounds vague, but that's what we all are doing. Some of us are looking forward to something. Some of us are looking not-so-forward to something. Few are looking to find something. It could be their keys, their cellphones, their lover, themselves, and apart from a gazillion more things, few of them are searching for answers. Answers to questions they have perhaps not framed correctly. It's not like they don't know what they want. Just that they know no way to put across what it is that they want exactly. This so called "They" includes this little "I" too. So that makes it "We".

Too much of our focus has gone away into 'answers'. "Answer me this". "Answer me that", "Answer the following", "Don't answer the following", "Why did it it happen(whatever 'it' is)", "Why did he/she leave?", and all those questions that confound us with their answers. Only thing being that all this ain't entertaining, this perpetual questioning. But there's a trick to all of this. On that, in a bit. but first, here's the deal.

Where does one go first, when confronted with an apparently unanswerable question? A friend, maybe a parent. Okay, parents may not give the answer you want to hear. Again, that said, the answer one wants to hear is not necessarily the solution to one's problem. And given the emotional state of a parent, over-brimming with all the concern for the questioning kid, the argument usually takes a wrong turn, and veers of into some unknown direction. And that was me digressing completely. Another person one puts up questions to is the teacher. Specially for those of us who are used to the classroom experience. Well, if you're a tad bit too curious, be prepared to listen to "You'll learn that in higher classes." That of course means that you're never going to learn that in higher classes (just kidding), or that you're never going to learn that in higher classes, because your curiosity has been beaten out of you. Sucks. But yes, there is a rare breed of teachers, who actually take a note of your doubts, and solve it. And just in case they can't, they send you off on a journey to some place inside you, where you may find what you're looking for. Mind you, a teacher needn't be the PhD holder in a subject, nor a "Master" at anything. He/she could be a friend, a stranger, the one you love, a loved one, or even for that matter, a teacher who ACTUALLY teaches.

It's strange how no  one knows the answers to everything, no matter how ever educated one may be. Maybe no one is supposed to know everything. And about the best of teachers, the most a good teacher can teach a student is to ask the right questions, or at least ask questions. He/she might end it with a "Go, figure it out yourself!" But hey! At least that's a start. Start to a journey out of a place called Blissful Ignorance.

And besides, the besides, given our generation's obsession with Multiple Choice questions, the best anyone can do about doing the best one can do, is as the late George Carlin says.... "Make an educated guess."

It could be four options. 

There could be more options.

If you are at the Arch of Triumph, Paris, you have 11 directions to choose from. 

How about that for multiple choice?

I'm still wondering if I said anything at all.