Life as A Journey (The End of This Metaphysical Journey since July 27th 2015)

Life does not necessarily need a guide to be lived. Like traveling, you can have absolutely no plan for a trip, just be there first and get to know the place after. Only after that, problems will come: Where are the better foods? Where are the most beautiful places? How to communicate with locals? Why do people do this and that?... As time goes, these problems will solve themselves out, while planning is only extra.

Life as a journey is the same as travelling. In this big journey of life, each of us takes different paths, has 3 stages and within each stages has smaller journeys, and within smaller journeys even smaller trips…

My journey has been a metaphysical one; people know it as philosophy. I started this small journey on July 27th 2015. It was unexpected and unplanned. It was an exploration. It was rewarding and satisfying. Two things are the most important from what I found: who I am and that life does not need philosophy. Philosophy happens to be the way of my thinking. In all my life, I have been unable to distinguish it from everything else, and my family encourage it. However, I begin to realize how doing philosophy is completely different from living; it is a different activity.

Someone compares people with buffet goers; we take a little bit of everything. We learn something about cooking, foods, health and medicine, science and technology, history and politics, education and parenting, and something about philosophy. No one can be expert at everything; we are always half way to knowing something, or "一知半解" as Chinese put it. This is not how we want to be, but rather how life puts us this way; we don't have the time, the mental capacity and the energy to fully understand all our encounters. But that's okay. Living only requires water, food, and shelter. Of course, in modern days, we are allowed to add a little bit more colors into life. I feel like it is very difficult to get this message across and I don't intend to, because it's going to need a thousand words, and with a thousand words no one is ever going to read it. Because there are a thousand other things more compelling and urgent, because this is what we are: buffet goers. "We only think when we are confronted with problems" -- John Dewey.

My metaphysical journey has came to an end. Exploration has brought enough treasures for me to go into 2016. The freedom of the metaphysical realm allows me to appreciate the freedom of my life, for no freedom is absolute, but with as limited as merely two choices, freedom flourishes between the gap. As my metaphysical journey becomes past tense, I'll be on new journey, I'll be yet again, free.

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