Questions We Live By

society, culture, personal, journals · EN

We’re not short of answers. We’re short of questions worth living with.The questions we carry shape us more than the answers we arrive at. They decide what we notice, what we’re willing to risk, who we become while we’re still working them out. Most never resolve, and that isn’t a failure. I changed my relationship with questions after reading Rilke‘s „Letters to a Young Poet“, where he told a young writer to be patient with everything unresolved in him, to love the questions themselves, and to live them rather than chase answers he wasn’t ready to hold.This is a podcast about those questions, and the people carrying them.Each episode is one unhurried conversation. We start with a story rather than an opinion, because that’s where the honest material is: a room, a year, the moment something shifted. Then we follow it: what shaped someone, what it cost, what they’d do differently, what they’re still trying to understand.Have a listen! Let me know what you think, and what questions