Philosophy

In all honesty, philosophy messes with my brain, confuses me, makes me feel non-existent, and separates me from anything else that matters. It makes my brain explode. This is why I love it so much. I have always asked myself and everyone else the most unanswerable questions, and then I end up staring into space and spending hours playing with my mind in most peculiar ways. As I grew up, I came to realise that this was the normal behaviour of any young child and I wasn't necessarily the only one. I also learnt that the average 4 year old asks over 500 questions a day. Except I still do that.

I am stuck in the mind of a 4-year old (both philosophically and logically, as many people imply). But as a 4 year old I thought that 'gRoWn uPs kNoW eVeRyThInG'. I then discovered that this was the biggest-ever lie one could ever be foolish enough to believe.

As a theory I think that when we are young, there is a part of our brain that holds all the philosophical questions we come up with. The ideas we come up with are all stored in there. As we grow up, the sections next to it, Logic and General Knowledge, also grow and start to take over, making the first bit smaller and smaller as we learn new things.

This is not a bad thing; it is good to learn facts as well as questioning existence and wondering why we created numbers in the first place.

But then we take it too far and go, "there must be a reasonable explanation for this," or "Science is always the answer!" Believe it or not I really have heard someone say that. I questioned their entire childhood afterwards. This is the moment we realise that we have reached either the pinnacle of misery, or the beginning of life: the dawn of adulthood. For some this may be the happiest moment of their life. I have read many books and seen many movies that make me feel the same way sometimes. However, some think that the genesis of adulthood is also the genesis of depression and hardship, like when almost half my teachers start shouting, "IF I HAD A POUND FOR EVERY TIME ONE OF YOU SPOKE WITHOUT PERMISSION, I'D HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO RETIRE."

Of course this forces us all to silence, and leaves me wondering if I could actually become Peter Pan or something, and just simply refuse to grow up. Once a child actually cried. Teachers can cause stress in the most mysterious ways...

Philosophy is not a skill, or hobby, or profession, it is just something anyone can do. Anyone can philosophise. Animals are probably asking themselves the meaning of life whenever they feel they want to. Anyone can just come up with theories and ideas, even if some are highly unlikely or "don't make sense". Philosophy never makes sense, not in the way we think. Philosophy never necessarily has any proof, they are just thoughts.

Philosophy is about asking questions, making theories and exploring the mind, without knowing, expecting or finding answers. Once that happens, it is no longer philosophy.

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