CLEARLY OBSCURE

There are so many aspects to life that amaze me. Rather, there are so many aspects that I can't help but be amazed by them. Yet due to the volume of things to be considered, I am often not surprised when something new surfaces. There's a good chance that anything is possible to an alarming degree when so many fascinating things exist. I also feel that the obscure helps to expand my perception of the universe to infinite and impossibly small fractures of wonder. I also imagine these fractures to have their own great detail which would suggest even more underlying framework. If I were to learn one day that things could only be so small and a once undiscernable single point in space is now understood to look like this or that, and there is no material structure divided beyond that, then I would reasonably continue to wonder how much bigger things are, and of what mega-structure are we the fine details of.
And what if making sense of things is the wrong way to approach all of the information we absorb. Maybe there's always something to be read between the lines. A broader scope with less attention to detail may provide us with the 'answer' we're searching for as a species driven by progress and tormented by pride. We can't resist the urge to 'know' and we're fueled by a seemingly naive passion to prove that we're not worthless and that our human minds are actually thinking about something greater than just colors and shapes. Are our minds doing anything more than that? We've turned certain conceptual shapes into numbers and letters and devised language and math out of those abstract ideas. We've come a long way with such achievements, but what have we missed along the way?

What do we really understand about time, mass, gravity and many other fundamental components of our daily life? As much as we like to pretend that we have control over these things by launching rockets into space, drawing up schedules, and creating economies to decide the worth of material, we are really secretly and humbly governed by those Gods of mystery and magic. They are the things that are a bit out of place and they should help to make it clear that things may not be what they seem...

M.C. Escher's Moebius Strip 1