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Facing IT! The Search Never Ends
by Bert Russell
Date: 6-29-2026 @ 11:30 PM
There are people who seem certain about everything.
I have never been one of them.
As a child, I asked questions until the people around me probably wished I would stop. My father would answer one question, only to hear another, and then another. I wasn't trying to challenge him. I wasn't trying to prove him wrong. I was trying to understand how everything fit together.
That hasn't changed.
For more than fifty years, I have collected moments, conversations, successes, failures, observations, and experiences. Every person I've met has unknowingly handed me another piece of the puzzle. Some pieces fit immediately. Others sat quietly in the corner of my mind for decades before they made sense.
People often ask whether I believe this or that.
The honest answer is... it depends on what I have learned so far.
If new information challenges what I believe, I owe it to myself to examine it. Sometimes my opinions grow stronger. Sometimes they change completely. I don't see changing my mind as weakness. I see it as evidence that I am still learning.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia later in life, but knowing the name of it didn't change who I was. I had already spent decades learning how my mind worked. The diagnosis gave me an explanation, not an identity. I don't pretend to know how every dyslexic mind works. I only know how mine processes the world.
And maybe that's enough.
I don't believe every person should think alike. In fact, I hope they never do. Every life is shaped by different teachers, different struggles, different victories, and different questions. Every mind untangles its own fishing line in its own way.
I have learned that facts deserve to be tested. Faith deserves to be respected. Curiosity deserves to be encouraged. None of those require us to stop asking questions.
One day, if I am fortunate enough to know that my life is nearing its end, I imagine I'll look back over everything I have gathered. Every lesson. Every mistake. Every relationship. Every belief I held and every belief I changed.
Then I'll make one final evaluation.
Not because I expect everyone to agree with me.
Not because I think I will have discovered every answer.
But because after a lifetime of searching, I owe it to myself to honestly say, "This is where my journey has led me."
Others may reach different conclusions.
That is their journey.
This is mine.
Until that day comes, I will keep asking questions, keep listening, keep observing, and keep untangling the line.
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