one paragraph credo, pasted out of context

[gurdonark]

My theory is simple–we never learn the answers. The way out of the woods is literally by naming the trees. We will never learn who we are. We will never learn how things work.
To be more precise, no matter how much we learn, this will not solve our despair.
The only balm for our despair is the telling of it.

Comments

[insanity-burst.livejournal.com]

I second that notion!

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Thanks. There are days this is my credo, and other days when my credo is more or less elaborate.

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

Have you been feeling a little depressed lately?

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I'd say that lately I have up moods and down moods, but I'm not really day to day depressed.
I'm just intrigued by the idea that even after all the explanations are accorded all their weight--even if we knew all and understood all and felt all--that we would still feel we don't understand anything. This particular post, though, suggests we are unable to understand it all, at all. But it's not really a "personal" idea, but a concept.