The fool

Some, after reading the About page in my blog, were pointing – truthfully – at the fact that my so called not-so-BIG questions are in fact general-important-questions about the world and myself, and the small-questions-that-are-BIG are particular-important-questions about the same subject, but they are both BIG, and so must be both answered here. I’ll plead guilty as charged; but I also just want to make my point clear: I think that very often (meaning almost all the time) the questions we find important are not the general ones, but the small ones, as they have a direct impact on our daily life, and often an annoying one; that doesn’t mean that general questions are not important. So I will handle first and mainly the particular ones, but will also consider – sometimes – the others.

There are also those who were quite deceived by me relying on the Monty Python’s Meaning of Life to answer the not-so-BIG questions, arguing that they don’t answer those questions, but only mock them. Agree, but not completely. In a way, they give some answers, right at the end:  » Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations ». They just show what I was trying to write down: important questions are not prima facie the general ones as Why are we here? What’s life all about? but those little ones which are so practical. So, if you want a complement to the Monty Python’s way of life, just remember King Lear’s fool:

Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.
Thanks to Shakespeare

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