“Truth” is the answer to the purpose of life and how to treat it. “Life” is what is being questioned and doubted, it is what we perceive and if that perception holds true.

I have reached a new level of generality, that is, in the case of philosophy and internal/mental monologues I find myself entering a new mental era. A mental era that calls for optimism, progression, and self-development. I search for answers to new questions, answers that may hold the key to happiness. With the mind and spirit of a philosopher my true happiness lies in pursuit of Truth, yet in all my years of life that I have done this, I have gone no further then just finding new questions. I’m growing fatigued. My mind is growing tired of the questions where all my theories, all my answers are met with contradicting ones and I’m beginning to see that my edifice of beliefs can only ever be just beliefs. Truth if it is truth should not be a belief, but a logical fact. Maybe all philosophers reach this point of awareness, maybe I’m just too weak to push the boundaries of the mind. What ever the case may be I do believe to be a true seeker of Truth is to live with a sense of contradiction where how you live, perceive, and act in life is only ever temporary until a better more accurate and closer Truth presents itself. This personal Truth runs our lives for we would not act if the action were not justified to the individual. Justification comes from this Truth and that is what I seek. I strongly believe that to find the proper Truth would lead to harmony amongst each other and peace of the soul, a happy life, an acceptingly beautiful death.

Everyone has a personal philosophy. I have not found mine yet, but I know where to look and that is in Nature itself. Humanity builds and our creations becomes our perceptions. How can we seek Truth inside our own facades, where the facade is society, where society is the mind and the mind is fickle. We are all experts in only one thing and that is ourselves, “ I think, therefore I am” was intended only for the one and the individual. When we question life, we question aspiration, development, purpose, but are these not narcissistic. The study of knowledge, reality, and existence seems convoluted to me because we are seeking Truth through the scope of our own eyes and if we are to truly question, to truly seek Truth then we must doubt ourselves, doubt that we are asking the right questions, doubt the seeking of Truth itself where man is too easily disillusioned by the constructs of his own mind. How can we know if the purest of our pursuits even whens’t disconnected from the realm of reality, in the realm of thought is not just as disillusioned. In order to transcend we must observe things that are not human for those things truly live in Life. A man can live in a forest, but his mind can shape that forest in such many forms that to one man it can be a beautiful forest, to another it can be perfect grounds for building a city, and another a hideous, fowl, intimidating place. No matter how general our questions become they are always affected by this perception of man. It is this perception that we must battle and it is by taking nature as our teacher. Let it educate us on the true nature of life. A squirrel has no judgements it lives as close as possible to survival as needed, for it either lives or dies; the squirrels actions are truly justified and guided by the essence of life. To learn of ourselves we must remove the ego, remove our beliefs and learn of what the squirrel knows. The squirrel being a metaphor to all creatures not man.