Answers, I have them all.
How to land that perfect job? Got that covered.
Troubled love life? Not a problem.
Is there a God? Me and Margaret, we know a few things.
Next time you’re at a bookstore, go to the self-help section. Count the number of books they have on making a new and improved self. So many answers, right in front of you. And there has to be something to them, right? People wouldn’t be buying them if they were total fakes. And if they weren’t selling, they wouldn’t have so much shelf space.
The difficulty isn’t finding answers. Answers are cheap and plentiful. Truths comes in shades of grey, each nearly as valid as the last.
The tricky part is finding the right answers for you.
Our problem, as a society, is that we settle. We discover an answer on our own, read one in a book, or catch it on Oprah – and then we embrace it. If it’s a close enough fit for your life, it may even stay with you for a while.
Close enough, for me, isn’t good enough.
Because even if I find the right answer today, more likely than not, it won’t be the right answer for me next month or next year.
We evolve. Situations change. Self-discovery opens new possibilities. Answers, like life, must be malleable. Must be adaptable. For me, the only absolute is that there arenone.