On Understanding

Those that are not capable of understanding life's deepest mysteries (including the primordial why questions that science has outlawed) are, through nature's infinite grace, not plagued with any particularly intense pain when they inevitably misunderstand them. Ignorance is bliss, they say. But, those with the capacity to understand them are plagued with misery and pain until that capacity has been fulfilled -- and, at the end of all their battles, and through the aforementioned grace, these select few find that all the pain and suffering was, in the end, worth it.