Episode 2 - Ayeka?

So the first chapter is called Getting Lost.

And the first question he asks is, where are you? Right now, as you read this page, where are you? In my bedroom, you might answer, or on the train, or at the park, or flying over the Grand Canyon on my way to visit my best friend in Los Angeles, or any number of locations you may be at this moment.

But none of these truly answer the question, where are you? Let's begin with a simple exercise.

Point to yourself.

Where is your finger pointing? Most of us will point to our chest or our face.

Is that you? Can you really point to who you are? Perhaps we'll admit that the body is not who I am because the body changes.

We know that most of the cells in our body regenerate within a decade.

So most of our body is no longer the same material that it was just 10 years ago.

DNA remains the same though.

So perhaps we are DNA.

but DNA is not conscious.

It replicates, but it does not think or feel.

There is something that is lodged within the body, within the flesh and bone that is formed by our DNA.

So when we point to our body, we are perhaps indicating that our self, in quotations, is somewhere within this.

I can't touch it per se, but this is where it lives.

If so, we have perhaps determined its vicinity, but we have indicated nothing of its nature with the pointing of a finger.

We have not identified it or pinpointed it.

We have merely located it approximately.

But let's not settle for approximates.

We are not given the gift of life to treat it haphazardly.

We can be lazy with many things, but understanding who, what, and where we are doesn't seem to be one of those things.

We should cast off with abandon.

So it shouldn't be one of those things we should cast off with abandon.

So where are you is the primary question.

Quite literally, it's the very first question of humanity asked by our Creator.