Day 30 "Discovery And Reflection"

With no sense of negativity I ask myself either the most important question there is, or the most useless one. What is the point of life? What is the point of my life?

In my youth I questioned everything, and I never felt even close to knowing why the fuck I am here, and in my youth I didn't much care to know anyway. In my ignorant youth I knew the depth of innocence and not the serious weight of the outcome of a choice. When I was younger I didn't stop to think about feeling alive, I just knew and was content that I was. In youth we all find comfort and fulfillment in even the most mundane.
Then time creeps in and your experiences carve away the smooth edges of your innocent days.
As we age we get sharper, more defined, more refined and more aware that there are many different emotional levels when it comes to feeling alive; you have to have some incredible things, and lose some incredible things to really know that though.

Looking back you get to see the moments that shined brighter than the ones you currently have now, you get to see what happiness looked like, and if you think hard enough, you may even remember what happiness felt like.
Discovery is such an important idea to try and make a reality in your life as much as you can. Never stop learning and experiencing, never stop trying to uncover the secrets that your life's path has hidden along this bittersweet road.

I watch as Danbox hops his way across the heated stove top and over to the cutting board with a pepperoni pizza on it, and as he stands there staring at this cheesy-meaty-doughy circle of baked terrible-for-you goodness, I knew that I was witnessing the discovery of something.
With only a slight hesitation, he dived right in to the pizza that lay before him, and there was no doubt that he was discovering something great in this moment.  If you can discover something on your own it is truly a gift, but to share that discovery with someone that means the world to you, there is nothing more sacred.
Every moment that you have to uncover and discover something that makes you feel like an innocent child; that makes you feel like you have achieved a moment with something special to relate to, is a moment where you can feel truly alive.
As I take a moment longer to reflect on these things, a moment longer than I would have in my earlier youth, I now see that the meaning of life is simple; it is to live.
Whatever that means to you is your secret alone, whatever inspires that feeling of discovery and excitement is what matters most, and whoever ignites the passion to dig deep within yourself, to discover yourself...to fight to feel alive; those are also your secrets alone.
Discovery and reflection, the most important duality you may come to know.