What am I supposed to do? You tell me

What am I supposed to do?

Interesting question. If you go with the “free will” approach, as I often do, the answer is whatever you decide.

Think it is the “nurture” route and much of it depends on how you were conditioned.

Take the “nature” road, and the answer is your genes pretty much have it figured out for you. Sooooooo.

What you, I or any of us really are supposed to do is one of life’s biggest “Jeopardy” questions.

Are you doing what you are supposed to do?

Should you actually be doing what you are supposed to do?

Is breaking away from what you are supposed to do better?

Maybe Alex Trebek will get to these questions before he retires next year and leaves all the complex questions to the next host of “Jeopardy!”

I suppose that is possible.

Beyond what I suppose are the obvious things — eat, sleep, pet cats and children, love, etc. — it is hard to say what people are supposed to do. The what you aren’t

supposed to dos are much more obvious. Mostly, I suppose, those things go back to the preservation of the species and or society.

You are not supposed to run with scissors.

You are not supposed to covet or murder your neighbor’s wife.

You are not supposed to eat three Quarter Pounders with cheese.

These are the rules, and most of us follow them.

You are not supposed to draw outside of the lines.

When we don’t, there are consequences like divorces, trips to the hospital and/or death.

Was I supposed to go to college?

A lot of people say “yes,” and as far as I can tell, I am glad I did.

That said, no one in my family had and we were nurtured the same. So was I really supposed to do it?

Hmmmm.

Then again, many in my clan followed my lead even though I didn’t always realize they were behind me.

Was my prized purple Dodge Neon supposed to be destroyed in a car accident?

On one hand, I loved that car. On the other, I

love my PT Cruiser just as much if not more. Hmmmm.

And yeah, I know I am mixing a lot of concepts here.

Are you supposed to email me and tell me how and why I am wrong and that I am stupid? Interesting question. I like to believe that things happen for a reason and what will be will be.

The truth is that it is often hard to find a reason, or rather a good reason, that something has happened.

What will be will be. But sometimes what happens is awful, so what good is that?

In the end, I suppose everything happens for a reason even if we don’t like that reason. But there I am again supposing.

AmI supposed to suppose?

I guess, but is life something we are

supposed to be guessing about?

A lot of people think they know the meaning of life and what they are supposed to do, be and say.

I suppose that is great. I suppose knowing is better than wondering.

Is it better than thinking? Faith is certainly better as far as I can tell. Yeah, it is. Hmmmm. Maybe?

I don’t know. I suppose.