Understanding Our Unrest: A Brief Meditation

A philosophy of uncertainty—one that claims existence is uncertain and purpose unknowable—inevitably collapses into something far more fragile:

“Because I cannot know, I must construct my own meaning.”

This is an enormous burden for any human to bear. And understandably, it often leads either to despair or self-dependence—because if no greater truth exists, then we alone must be the authors of our existence.

This manifests itself, religiously or not, in what becomes hedonistic practice:

We begin to extract as much pleasure from life as possible.

We chase feelings.

We define goodness by what feels good.

We turn inward.

We become proud of our accomplishments, chasing the high of achievement—

because the easiest and most immediate judge of “good” is the body.

But this path never ends well.

The result?

Depression. Anxiety. Confusion. Addiction. Self-loathing.

A sense of hollowness after every fleeting success.

We run harder. We set bigger goals. We try again.

But peace never arrives.

Why?

Because peace cannot be manufactured. It can only be received—from truth.

The solution, then, must begin here:

If a thing exists—anything—then it is, by its very nature, knowable.

The fact that we can question meaning at all is evidence that meaning can be known.

Uncertainty is not an endpoint—it is a starting line.

And when we believe that understanding is possible, we begin to walk a path that leads not to self-construction, but to revelation.

The deepest healing begins when we stop running from our questions—

and start seeking the One who answers them.