What if?

Did I have to go through so much hurt before I could finally ask the questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Or did I have to go through the hurt because I asked those questions?
Does knowledge lead to loneliness or does loneliness lead to knowledge?
Did Siddhartha emerge as the Buddha because he chose the silent path to enlightenment? Or did walking down that lonely road create a Buddha?

In layman's terms, it's the chicken and the egg situation repeating itself time and time again, life after life, century after century.
And let's just face it. If in the past three billion years we haven't been able to figure it out, do you really think the answer's about to emerge anytime soon?
What if we just live it, instead of question it?
Why meddle around incessantly. when it's so much easier to just let it be? All these billions of years, millions of lives, thousands of incarnations, and we still haven't learnt to let go and let be.

Do you need to know how saffron is grown, to relish its flavour?
Do you need to know how a star got there, to enjoy its beauty?
Or what made the sun shine, to soak in its warmth?

So here's the thing. I'm trying it. Maybe you could too?
Just maybe, for the tiniest of seconds at first, while we find our feet, we forget about the why's, the when's and the how's.
Just for now. Just for a wee bit. Leave the how's to whatever lies out there.
What if, just for now, we chose to enjoy the end result, instead of wondering how we got here.
What if we could return a stranger's smile without questioning his motive? What if we took his smile for what it is:  a beautiful smile from a beautiful person. What if we allowed that beautiful person to love us, without wondering why he does? What if we returned that love, without the fear of hurt? What if we lived in the moment, in all its purity and beauty?
And just if, what if, living in this moment felt so liberating that it became a way of life?

Tomorrow doesn't yet exist. Yesterday may never even have been. Today's all there is. This moment, right now, is all we've really got.
And would it really be that scary to enjoy a stranger's smile? To walk down that road, even if on your own, because the journey there is worth it? To receive knowledge and wisdom, regardless of your deeds? To stop judging and start allowing.

So take off those blinkers. They went out of fashion so very long ago. See it for what it is.
Breathe. Relax. Laugh. Love.
That's all you need to do. That's all you've ever needed to do.
And don't you see? It really is that simple, after all.