The Need to Know

Not only will we never know everything, but we won’t even know any more than a single crab on a little pubic hair of the body that is the universe. It sucks, but it is what it is. So often we want to know everything, especially about our lives and the lives of those close to us. Everyone has secrets. Everyone has secrets that no one else will ever know. You do, I do, your parents do, your girlfriend does, your dog does. Actually, your dog probably doesn’t. But he could.

“Why did she dump me?”

“Why doesn’t he like me?”

“Why didn’t they hire me?”

You may never know the answers to these questions, and you definitely can’t force the answers to these questions. If you try, you may get an answer, but it probably won’t be the real answer, and you’ll suspect that and become even more agitated.

The key is to stop giving a shit. Release the need to know.

She probably dumped you to give her ex-boyfriend she’s been banging on the side another chance, even though she knows it’ll fail. You didn’t interest her enough.

He doesn’t like you because you tried too hard to make him like you and he thinks you’re a girly man.

They didn’t hire you because they hired someone who actually had some experience in the field, someone who actually wanted that job, not just any job other than the one he had despised.

Sometimes you’re better off not knowing the truth. Sometimes people don’t tell you the truth because they know it’ll hurt you. And sometimes you need to give up on finding out and just move on.

Why do you need to know the truth anyway? It comes from a place of insecurity. You’re not perfectly content with yourself and how the world is. You have to know everything. Instead, just chill out, relax, and know that everything is good. You don’t have to know why he stopped returning your calls. You’re a big girl and you’ll be just fine. Go hang out with your friends and joke about how he had a tiny penis, like all ex-girlfriends do.

There’s a lot of misery in the world. Most people are at least kind of miserable. Be glad you’re not as miserable. You have clean drinking water. Lots of people don’t. Can you imagine that?

Even if we could know everything, it wouldn’t make us happy, and being happy is the ultimate goal, right? Even when we legitimately want to help somebody, it still comes from a place of wanting to be happy. Helping other people makes us feel good. And that’s great.

The only thing we need to know is how to be grateful. When we know how to do that, everything else falls into place.

Oh, and I was kidding before. She didn’t cheat on you. She dumped you because she knew she wasn’t good enough for you, and she wanted to leave with the upper hand to save her ego. Truth is, the guy didn’t like you because he was threatened by how cool you are and didn’t want you to outshine him in social situations. And they didn’t hire you because the female manager couldn’t take her eyes off your impressive bulge and she knew she’d end up sexually harassing you and getting herself fired.

See? You had your panties all up in a bunch, assuming the worst-case scenario, but you were wrong. Relax and let things be how they are without needing to know every little detail about your world. Release the need to know why I chose a random hottie on a beach as the featured image for this post. You’ll never know. Unless you are the proud owner of a phallus.