It recently occurred to me that problems are artificial. They are created by strange means.
I have heard the idea before that every problem has a solution, or every question has an answer. But I think it’s even deeper than that.
Problems or questions only arise when something that is whole becomes split, or maybe when whole cannot be seen. How deeply it is split, how many splits there are, or how much of the whole is obscured will be reflected in how “big” the problem appears to be.
And problems can of course have multiple solutions because everything in this Universe is multifaceted.
So by solving a problem, answering a question, we are healing a fissure, rejoining a broken off fragment in a multifaceted crystal. We are revealing more of the whole that we were unable to see before.
That’s a more soothing way to look at it. This perspectives makes problems and challenges seem a lot less threatening to me.