# Time for Why

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-08-28

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It sits like a heavy stone, deep in my belly.

There’s a rumble. A wave of energy passes through.

A project-a series of whats and hows- are done.

A new project hasn’t started yet.

So there’s a gap, a space, where the brain can’t be satisfied with “being busy” with something that is tangible and can be solved.

Instead, there’s that ache, a tug, a yearning…”why are we here?”

“Why are we doing this?”

“Why is this important?”

The natural, understandable desire is to run from it.

To get distracted by a book, a mindless scroll, the latest celebrity rant, a movie.

The challenge, the incredibly intimidating challenge is to sit with it for as long as possible.

And then sit with it for longer.

I don’t know the answer to “why?”

Maybe there isn’t one.

Maybe that’s why?

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*Originally published on [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/time-for-why)*