What is Bewilderment?

Bewilderment is the great unknown of the future, we don’t understand what may lay ahead of us in our life. It’s the “why” of curiosity of adventure that humans chase. I defined it as a wonder of the unexplained future that allies. In the short story BEWILDERMENT by Fanny Howe, she talks about the subject of how it’s used in our lives such as we all have our own personal views on the uncertainty of the world such a questioning everything in the world, about unproved science and religion. She talks about how it’s more like a dream and we want to believe that our fantasy is the truth. She pictures is as if we were walking on a spiral outwards with no end. We just move around and explore but never gain any steps forward. There I disagree and say that we just don’t keep moving forward unaware of what we do. I say that we take those steps and gain some ground to advance in our lives that’s why we seek knowledge and religion. Certainty is only gained by someone’s or ones self’s personal experience most of the time and it’s very critical that it plays a huge role in our lives. This is why, we make judgments and life decisions based on experience. This is very important because without it we will always repeat the same mistakes in our lives and we will live in a world of Bewilderment forever and never advance in anything. So I say that we will need both in life to fuel our adventure side and our wanting of understanding. And then comes results or experience which turns into certainty. So life needs both not just one because we can’t always repeating what we already did and we need to build up knowledge of what we learned. And we will never know everything because after all we are only human and we will continue to explore new things.