The Unknown is The Answer, The Odd is the Norm

A tiny drop of rain falls into the jungle of the Amazon rainforest. After travelling 25.21 km, it crashes into a slippery rock next to the river. Not a banana leaf, not a frog either, the water drop joins with its kind shortly without lingering in the tropical heaven.

People call it “the water cycle”. Water particles travel between seas, air, and all kinds of ground. They are restlessly moving forward, into the following phrase. It doesn’t matter what rock it passes through, what colour the banana leaf is or what kinds of frog it meets. The water seems to carry a mission from the sun, to move endlessly, perpetually on earth.

However, the sun knows nothing about the water. The sun doesn’t observe and doesn’t think. The nuclear fusion inside the celestial body repeats endlessly, until the end of its life.

What’s the purpose of water cycling around the world? Why is the sun emitting warmth and light across the universe? Why do all the stars blink in an intoxicating way at night?

We don’t know the answers.

The universe is indifferent to what we think, what we do, or what we want from it. Robert Pantano said at the base of almost everything, the resulting truth is this: we don’t know.

Why is that particular drop of rain precisely hitting one of the millions of stones lying next to that specific branch of the river?  Why is the sun giving a certain amount of energy to the earth so that life thrives on it? 

Many people believe that our imaginary friends do all the work to make sure the universe keeps running. But the truth is, it is all dictated by the odds.

The same author aforementioned, Robert Pantanouses a quote from nineteenth-century writer Henry David Thoreau:

>My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.

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Even though the ultimate end is the destruction of everything, the god is the odds, the stubborn human has never stopped their pursuit of wonder. They found meaning in the unknown. They see lights at the end of the tunnel.

As the unsympathetic ocean made of water is ceaselessly heated by the equally unconscious sun, the water that once nurtured us would eventually consume us. In all this unknowingness and uncertainty, there is no right or wrong. 

Humankindconfounded journey toward salvation is unfolding as you read.