In the end we find it.

Sometimes I get lost in my studies. I have come to the understanding that you must question everything. You must challenge the most basic of thoughts in order to believe them. If your faith is never challenged it isn’t your faith it is your ritual. It is the ideas you have been told. The rules you have chosen to follow. When your faith is challenged and remains in tact throughout that challenge, then it becomes faith.

When you are studying philosophy you often time get lost. I grew up in a house that trained me to believe what I was told. If I believed everything I study I would be a lost soul in this world. I have to sift through the readings and try and take something from each one. I have to open my mind and give context to everything that I take on. Sometimes I get lost. Sometimes I get frustrated. Often time I don’t know what to believe.

One of the most interesting philosophers I have studied is Ludwig Wittgenstein. A German philosopher who had such a unique view of the world. He was a solider, a teacher, and a famous philosopher. The more you study this life the more you can see how lost he got. How often he become confused over who he was and what was meant for him. In the end he finds it. In the end we all find it. I hope.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

-Ludwig Wittgenstein