Persistent Questions

This note was first shared on my weekly newsletter #13 on Oct 9. Read it here.

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Today I asked myself a good question. I try to ask myself as many good questions as I can. Generally, it is a good idea and also it is very easy to do. It helps to begin with not knowing many things. You are even encouraged to ask the same questions again and again.

The question I asked myself was this:

Who gave you the right to fling your words and your lines carelessly into the universe? And where do you get the nerve, to demand that others - who themselves are running frantically inside this infinite void - should catch them, and understand them and react?

I mean, the sheer audacity.

I have met this question before. It looks a little different every time, uses different words. But it’s always the same idea - that I stop doing whatever it is that I am doing. Sometimes it has won, but a lot of the time I have defeated its arguments. Now we are old acquaintances. I cannot call it a friend, but it knows me very well and I know a lot of things about it.

We had a chat, and then it went back home. And then I got back to work.

Have you asked yourself any good questions of late?