Not believing in something and believing without a reason are similar. This does not mean you stop believing. Believe in your instincts and then find a reason to believe. Isn’t this what we are all interested in – “Finding the reason”. If you believe you cannot then nothing can make you do it; if you believe you can then there may be a chance you can do it, but if you believe with a reason then you will do it.
Everything I say or do has a reason. Every argument has a reason, every solution has a reason. Come to think of it, each and every question too has a reason. If there can be a reason to the big bang theory and that quarks are the smallest particles then why cant there be a reason for those questions which do not have a reason. We sleep, eat breathe and do every possible thing for a reason.
What if mankind did not reason? Then we would not be the same as we are today. We would be least inquisitive in what makes to world around us. We would be mere puppets tied to the strings of mimicry and traditions. But some things are always left unreasoned.
We reason because we are curious. We reason because we need to know why? Our brain is constantly thinking of something, anything. Wouldn’t it be a waste we let it think of random things. Why not utilize our resources. Why not rather think of something which may help us think more. This is what makes us different from each other. A difference between a bright person and a not so bright person is the reason to reason. Our brain is constantly working and needs to be assured of what we are doing before doing it or what we are hearing or doing and it contradicts everything.
I am often termed as argumentative. Though some of the arguments are useless which are meant purely to manipulate people and get things done my way, but arguments are the reason I know what I know. If for my argument you do not have an assuring answer then I consider myself correct, which in reality may or may not be correct. But does it stop here. No..! Then I argue myself to find the reason to the argument and hence find the correct answer to it. ‘I’ here refers to every individual. That’s what we do. This is the firewood that burns the bonfire of our mind.
So always try to find a reason to every question that comes to your mind. You can never take things for granted. You must never follow rather you must lead.
A thought provoking quote: ‘I think therefore I am’. – Descartes
