Unanswered Questions

Every day I ask a lot of questions. From simple questions to complicated  questions. I ask when Jakarta traffic could be as smooth as during Moslem holiday. Why a person drives while holding a scissor. What can I do to make my life more enjoyable. Why my mom got sick while she should be enjoying her old days. Why an 8-year old boy, the only children of the family got rare bone cancer. Why despite of all the bad precautions printed in the add, people still buy cigarettes and smoke whereever they want.

Some questions have easy answers, others are not that easy. Sometimes I make up my own answers. Maybe the lady holding scissor while she drove was on guard against possible intruders during traffic jam.

The questions about people habits or action are more difficult to answer.  Humans are not computers. Computers can always come out with logic solution, even after we type the most complicated algorithm. Most humans are not that logic.

Although people complain about Jakarta's daily traffic jam and yearly flood, they still throw rubbish into the river, reluctant to use public transportation, drives against the flow, ignore the traffic signs. People still buy cigarettes and smoke in public area despite all the printed add about what smoking could cause. How it affects their own health and the health of all the innocent non smokers around them.

So maybe the answer is because humans can always do whatever they want and not whatever necessary. My logic is different from other people's logic. Hopefully there would come a day when people can consider others' perspectives with open mind and makes decision based on the best interest for themselves and others.

When the questions are about sickness, life and death, I really raise my hands. So many why and there were never any satisfying answers. Keep craving for answers only leads to frustration.

We do not need answers to continue living. Some answers make me understand others better, while other answers only evoke more questions. So I'll try to live with unanswered questions. Keep the questions linger in my mind, while making the best of what is ahead of me.

I just wait patiently, maybe the answer would pop out someday. Or if not than I will make peace with them, till one day I got the chance to ask them personally to THE ONE who creates my whole world.

Isaiah 55:8 MSG

“I don’t think the way you think. The way you work isn’t the way I work.” God ’s Decree.
“For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think.