What if you don’t have the answer ?
- Avra Poelmann

- Dec 8
- 2 min read
Hello beautiful Souls. My message today is to fellow data-seekers and perpetual nose-pokers!
Let’s discuss a truly baffling modern mystery: the unanswered question. Now, I know what you're thinking—in the age of Google, the all-knowing digital oracle that can tell you both the square root of \bm{\pi} and whether wearing socks with sandals is a federal offense (it should be), how can we possibly not know something? It feels like a glitch in the system!
Yet, here we stand, like toddlers staring at a locked cupboard, driven by the desperate need for "closure," which I suspect is just a fancy psychological term for "I need to stop thinking about this so I can go watch TV." We are compelled to ask "Why?" Why, indeed!
Sometimes we even get fed a perfectly confident answer that turns out to be about as accurate as a politician's promise. Or worse, we frantically invent our own answers—like deciding the reason the Wi-Fi is slow is because a tiny, disgruntled gnome is chewing on the fiber optic cable. Is this truth?
(Probably not.) Is it a convenient way to stop the exhausting search for the actual answer (which might be that we just need to restart the router)? Absolutely!
My own brain, bless its perpetually noisy little heart, has always operated like a caffeinated Labrador puppy chasing after every crumb of knowledge.
I am not merely curious; I am intellectually ravenous, which mostly translates to me falling into Wikipedia holes about medieval butter sculptures when I should be paying my taxes.
And yes, while technological marvels like Gemini and various "Chat Apps" offer huge, insightful support—capable of summarizing the history of Western philosophy in three seconds flat—we must remember the biggest spoiler of all: the answers we truly seek are usually within us, waiting patiently. We have the technology, but we also have the inner monologue!
Reality check folks, here’s the kicker, sometimes you just don't have the external answer, and occasionally, the universe demands you finally accept that some things are meant to be a mystery. It's the ultimate cosmic joke!
You might spend years seeking the truth, only for the answer to finally reveal itself when you're completely distracted, perhaps while trying to figure out if you've been pronouncing "quinoa" correctly (you haven't, I still can’t say it ! )
So, will we ever stop seeking the truth? Honestly, I don't know, but if you find out, please consult your inner wisdom, then Google it just to be sure, and then send me a strongly worded email.( I probably won’t see it in my inbox!)
Our intuitive wisdom and insight are the key to our answers …Let’s try agree sometimes we don’t have all the answers! We rely on our values, our intuition, our compassion and acceptance.



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