Once upon a time, there was a little girl who wanted to know why life even was!
As soon as she began learning names and thinking, she wanted to know why she existed, why the world existed, and from where and how the world came to be.
So, she asked her parents many questions, like:
Would I still be me if I was born to another mother and father?
Where do I go when I am asleep?
What are dreams?
Where do thoughts come from?
Do we all have the same thoughts?
Where did I come from?
What happens at death? Where do we go?
Why are there always two of everything?
Who am I?
The little girl had a mysterious feeling that everybody and everything was connected to each other, and that if something happened somewhere else, what happened nearby would be affected. She sensed that all things were interconnected and that everything affected everything else. She would ask questions from that point of view, and was always shocked when every grown up she talked to was surprised that she asked such silly questions.
She knew that if everything was connected somehow that everything must be created by one thing. Without knowing what to call this, she just knew. And, it was the greatest wonder to her that this mysterious thing that creates life chose to create life as it seemed to appear to her.
She used to like to daydream about how if life had the power to be anything, why did it choose to be this way, with two kinds of people called men and women, and two sides of everything. It seemed to her, even though she was little, that life didn’t make good choices at all! It was a puzzle that constantly perplexed her. To her, this world seemed very poor when compared with what life could have created.
She knew that life was a powerful force that could be anything it wanted to be. Sometimes she would make believe other forms of life, and what being them might be like – for example, other kinds of bodies and ways to communicate to each other where everyone would just automatically know what was being thought, without speaking.
Even though she enjoyed playing with her friends, most of the time she liked to sit alone and wonder about the mystery of life. Even then, she found it very surprising that none of her friends seemed interested in talking about these questions. She decided that, no matter what, she was going to dedicate her life to finding the answer to what life was after all.
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