#1280 - Are you solved?
Do you feel solved?
For a long time, I felt like an unsolvable problem. Like a puzzle too big and complicated, with missing pieces and no idea of what the final result should be.
The older I get, the less I feel the need to solve the puzzle of who I am.
I don't know if it's because I'm getting tired or because I'm beginning to love being unresolved.
But when did it start?
When did we begin to treat life as a problem to solve instead of a process to experience?
In my case, it may be the religion I grew up with and all that idea of the original sin. Since I was a kid, I've learned that I was born with something intrinsically wrong that I must fix throughout my life.
Or maybe it was the school and all that focus and problem-solving?
Who knows.
The fact is that at some point, I internalised the idea of being a problem to solve, and I spent a lot of energy trying to figure out a solution.
And it just feels like such a waste of time and energy.
Life is not a problem to be solved.
It is a unique journey to experience.
And so are people.
The man in the opening image is the English monk and theologian Pelagius. He was declared a heretic because he emphasised that the original sin did not taint human nature and that humans, by divine grace, have free will to achieve human perfection.