The Reason for Everything

E. O. Milne

What is the reason that I sit here and write to you? Confusion fills my body and I see no end to this repetitive question that lingers inside the mind of my own and so many others.

What is the reason that I get up in the morning? Or try so hard on my test? Is it because I look to create a better future? How can I, when I don’t even know our past?

We say we have a motive, to change the world, commit a crime or purchase the latest game console in the PlayStation series. But the truth is that how can you have a motive when you know nothing of where it came from in the first place?

The first place, the big bang, or the first day, second, hour.

I would give my life just to first know the truth of it all.

The truth behind how in a never-ending nothingness there suddenly became something. Math teachers tell us that to create something you need a combination of other things.

But at some point, in time there was something, if that was due to a greater being or to a magic spell that was cast over an area or just a virtual reality to make us think we are actually real when we are just a complex video game.

We can think of all these things and put our faith into one, yet we have no proof of anything. Of life, death or the reason that we even think that we are real.

But to step back we need to think of the start. What is nothingness, it could be complete darkness of complete brightness or even a rubber duck. No matter what, none of those options are nothing because they can be described by my own words.

We cannot even imagine how something was created because we cannot comprehend what nothingness is.

Philosophers spend their near entire lives trying to solve these questions such as maybe we are just butterflies dreaming. But they know deep down that they will never uncover the truth because there is no way of figuring out where to begin.

If we get a headache thinking about things such as the thought of a colour that is not on earth, how are we meant to think as far as the answer to it all.

So instead, we dig ourselves deeper into holes of misconception. Creating a society where we give each other something to do instead of facing the questions of reality, we have created stress and depression and still we blame everything other than ourselves.

But we need to take charge, because for too long have we kept ourselves away from the discovery of not only space but the answers to all. If it is a multiversal reality or a virtual reality, we need to find a way to begin our journey to uncover the truth.

Because after the beginning there is the end, and it seems like we are closer to that then the beginning. And when it arrives everything that we ever cared for, every HSC result we got back every time we didn’t get the job we wanted will all go away and it will seem as if nothing matters because it will be too late to start over, too late to look back on our past to look to the future.

Now I don’t know where we will begin, but we need to make the answers or existence a priority instead of fighting over territory and who in this world is more dominant.

Because it is things such as world wars and politics that holds us back, we say that we will work as one to help each other find answers but if we’re fighting each other how can we fight what is out there when the time comes.

Because I’m sure that whatever the truth is behind everything that we have ever known will be nothing like we could have expected in the first place.

Because something is waiting for us in the vast nothingness for us to reveal ourselves and confront it.

Something that will make the world finally have clarity.

Finally, make sense.