When We Ask.

'Life is not a straight line. Life is a zig-zag.' 
- Maira Kalman

I was 13 and Widgetless.

I glanced at the Daily Bulletin pinned askew to our classroom noticeboard as I was leaving for lunch. I stopped to read the anonymous poem:

When we ask:
'Why am I?'
'What am I to become and be?'
'What is the meaning of my life?'
Then we are exploring
The region of our experience
Where God may be found.

I re-read those lines once, and have never forgotten them.

It was okay to not know my Widget. Indeed, it was a good thing.

Not knowing - and knowing it - were the beginning of Knowing.

Next - were questions.

A deliberate process of inquiry that would lead me to knowing.

And Knowing.

The Widget.