Blog 849 – 12.20.2017

I Love A Good Mystery

When my daughter Emily was little there was a Snoopy book around the house in which Peanuts Snoopy was writing a mystery book it began, “It was a dark and stormy night, a shot rang out…” What is it about a mystery that peaks the interest in so many of us?

I have to admit that I use the line most often, “I love a good mystery” when someone has lost their keys or something and is looking for it or them. My first question is always the same, “Where do you last remember seeing it or them? That is always the method that I use to start the search and then I fan out in ever broadening circles till all the possibilities are covered.

When life becomes unhappy or uninteresting we should employ the same or similar technique to discover where we might have misplaced our love of life just like those darn keys…where do you last remember having it? Life is meant to be good, to be fun, and to be interesting and if we no longer think so then we first might examine our thinking.

I believe that there is no mystery that a thinking mind cannot figure out. To me far worse that the criminal mind is the lazy or apathetic mind that says silly things like “We’ll understand it someday just have a little faith” or “It must be magic” or worse still, “I just don’t care to know.” And as a disclaimer I have heard my own mouth utter all three, shame on me. Where is Colombo or Nancy Drew when you need them? Why, inside your own heart and mind. Dust off that magnifying glass, Sherlock, and get a clue, feel your blood pumping, and your heart racing. Hear your own voice raised and shouting, “The game is afoot.”

By all means get back in the game of life and discover its mysteries or perhaps write a few of your own, You wonderful mystery, You.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White