Most of us have heard the phrase since we were kids:
"Finders keepers, losers weepers."
It's something that many believe is true of life's journey - that the goal is to find The Answer. If you find it, then you're a winner, and those who are still seeking are just poor, pathetic losers.
I don't feel sorry for those who are seeking The Answer. I pity those who actually believe they've found it, and refuse to search any longer.
"What are you?" the people who have found The Answer ask me. And if I were to answer this or that, Christian, or Muslim, or Buddhist, or even atheist, then they would be satisfied. They might not agree with my Answer, but at least it's an answer, and that's enough for them.
But if I say that I'm only a wanderer - that I haven't found The Answer, and that I'm not particularly looking for one - then oh how they pity me! Poor guy. No goal. No focus. No path (that they can see). Poor, poor guy.
It's the journey that's important, folks, not the destination. If you hear, or see, or touch, or feel, or know just one more thing today than you did yesterday, then congratulations - you are still alive. Seek life, if you seek anything.
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"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Isaac Newton