Two questions-what and why

For the last 24 years I’ve asked a lot of questions.  I’ve always been an observer; watching reactions in flasks and recording temperature, pressure, and color (or even people in situations, cataloging temper, body language, and tone of voice).  I find myself asking “What is going on here?”  I’m a scientist.

Every scientific statement in the long run really means something like “I put some of this stuff in a pot and heated it to such and such a temperature and it did so and so.”  Do not think I am saying anything against science, I am only saying what its job is… But why anything comes to be there at all and whether there is anything behind the thing science observes – this is not a scientific question.”  -C.S. Lewis

So I would never claim to have science figured out, but I am a classic type A and questions of the ‘what’s going on here’ have always come naturally.  Pensive thoughts of the ‘why are things happening’ are a foreign topic, up until now.

While home in Utah for the holidays, I caught myself delving into the world of curiosity.  I was shocked with questions- why I can’t help but love certain people, how I had come to my present circumstance, why do things always seem to work out, and why does life change so quickly.  It was a barage of questions; it exhausted me.  I’m still spinning in thoughts.  Its blissful to be caught up in questions with no concrete answers,  I can’t be wrong today!