Like a Riddle

張貼日期：Oct 30, 2010 1:28:39 PM

Like a Riddle

Shammy Chao

     Scientific research has long provided a wide range of new evidence and discoveries which not only enable human beings to understand the universe a great deal but help gratify our inner longings for unknown. Now, such kind of in-depth explorations in different fields are continuously going on and will be ceaselessly carried out as we can expect. Nevertheless, it appears that no matter how much significance the new findings suggest, they are of no help for us to enhance the spiritual interaction between ourselves and other people. As the most giant and complicated machines in the world, human brains seem to be the ones that can never be comprehended by pure human reason and intelligence. They are so inscrutable that every human being remains a riddle to others.

     Everyone is a riddle. All the time we are surmising others’ moods, thinking, motivations, actions etc. but fail to get the absolutely right answers to solve the considerable uncertainties borne in our minds. We can never proudly utter the word that we are able to completely understand someone else by any means since we don’t even understand ourselves thoroughly. When we are alone, our moods may oscillate up and down without any specific reasons. We laugh, we cry, we love, and we hate, all of these are under no circumstance to be further analyzed by the most advanced equipment and the most intelligent intellectuals. When dealing with a relationship, we feel vexed and perplexed because we cannot just open others’ hearts and see what in hidden inside. We guess from some clues and our own instinct or speculation; however, we can only know part of other people at most and the remaining part of them still remains a riddle for us which is far beyond human knowledge.

     Everyone is a riddle. Curiosity is one of the human nature that is considered a personality trait more or less shared by everyone. When we face a puzzling question, our curiosity is inevitably piqued by the unknown motivating us to find the possible answers question; likewise, human beings are so unfathomable that arouse our interest to further explore. That is to say, the attraction of human beings stems from the unpredictable human minds which may be replete with an abundance of whims and fancies that we can hardly imagine. If everyone is as easily understood and predicted as a robot, we should have no fun getting along with people at all.

     Everyone is a riddle. The more clues about a riddle one has, the closer one gets its core. As a matter of fact, however, no matter how hard people strive to get the final answer, it remains unlikely for humans to solve the riddle since it remains a riddle now and forever. That is, if anyone is able to find the answer to a riddle, the riddle is no more a riddle. It is for sure that there’s no any formula telling us how to deal with every person around us. It also can be inferred that it is of little possibility for human beings to come up with an unprecedented new theory or to set a device that can help forecast people’s moods and thinking or see through every person’s inner mind. A riddle still remains a riddle for good, unsolvable after all.

     When getting along with others, from time to time we don’t use our hearts to try to understand others and to feel what we can feel; instead, we tend to arbitrarily conjecture other people’s thinking from our viewpoints or personal experiences. Moreover, we may associate the ones we are facing with people we encounted before. By doing so, we utterly ignore the fact that everyone differs from each to each at bottom. No matter how many common features two people share with each other, they can only resemble to their counterpart in some sense, whereas they can never be the same. To realize the truth that everyone is definitely unique, we are liable to recognize everyone’s distinctiveness. Though we are incapable of understanding one person completely as we cannot solve a riddle forever, we can at least do our utmost to find more clues about others with our hearts so as to get closer to them instead of always surmising from what we thought.