What is this place? (says everyone). Humans have always been searching for meaning and will possibly not stop searching for their own version until the population gets wiped out by its own creations and doings, or by something external. I write this to reflect on my own struggle with this feeling and how it is sometimes the only thing that I think of.

You see, all literature has been created by humans. Yet no one has actually arrived at why humans actually exist. This has to be true because the entity itself cannot ever determine why it exists in a primitive way.

Let’s do a thought experiment where we are training some subject on what it is supposed to do, how it is supposed to do it, and why that is important. The subject will learn the thing; however, in the back of his mind, there will always be a question as to “why?” Despite explicitly being told why, the subject must want to ascertain only the answer to the question “why” by himself. Just run this experiment, and you will always arrive at the same conclusion: out of all the questions, the answer to “why” is more incomplete.

And now get this: humans were never told any of the answers to any of the questions. They have to figure out everything by themselves. In the current running experiment, humans are somewhat aware of where they should be, what they should be doing, and how they should be doing it. But ask them why they should be doing it, and they will not actually have an answer. They might spew out things like this is important for mankind and that their work is “important.” But if you see closely, those are just placeholders. The question of “why” is so deep that it requires more than the common man enquires into.

Questions like “how?” can be discovered by the entity by running experiments and eventually arriving at the outcome it wants and the method. Questions like “where?” are obviously referring to the physical or mental location of the entity’s topic of interest. Questions like “when?” are matters of time. Questions like “what?” refer to the description of the topic of interest in the entity’s view of its life.

But questions like “why?” are difficult to answer and can always be traced back to another unsolved “why,” like in the argument below:

Why do you breathe?
→ Because the entity wants to live.
→ Why does the entity want to live?
→ Because it thinks that living is good.
→ Why is living good?
→ Perhaps because of someone that they want to live life with.
→ Why do they think that living with them is worth it?
→ Because they feel alive.
→ …keep on questioning, and still no substantial answer arrives.

There exists infinite amount of literature on this piece, however it was actually fun to arrive at this on my own this sunday night.

We are in an unknown place, trying to answer the whys one by one, yet perhaps never truly arriving at a primitive why. There are attempts to answer the why. Religion is one such mechanism, but that too is only an attempt.

Keep reading , Keep asking “why?”