La question complexe.

The complex question to life, the universe and everything - which I have always been asked by those who have the courage to ask me, (or anyone for that matter is) without feeling foolish about it is ..

Why is it all so complex?

Since, there are so many who dont want to look foolish, I shall provide the answer, and free of cost!

Like all sages and saints of the past, I shall only show you the path which leads to enlightenment. It is for the follower to find the source of light.*

* Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any heart burns, body burns and exploding brains which may be caused in your sojourn, as it will be all be part of your discovery (should you not discover that).

The winner is .. Tom Hanks for Terminal (we could hear that in the Oscars this year ). But seriously,

La réponse à tout et à l'univers est ...

complexity in life = A + i * B; where,

A is the real part of life
B is the imaginary part of life

So,
1. Find the real and the imaginary in your life.

For example, the thought of looking/sounding foolish is imaginary. Even if you do sound foolish, it would be the imagination of the observer who would himself not be in the real plane.

2. Give waitage to each part according to the benifts it brings to your life, in making it pseudo complex.

You have three choices from here:

1. Eliminate part 'A' from your life and keep only 'B'. A gentleman called John Lennon, professed this in a very poetic way.

2. Eliminate part 'B' and keep only 'A'. This went well with many people who thought of seeing as believing and attributed the rest to God and made religion. But, unfortunately Mr. B took over lot of things in Mr. A's domain and it was dificult to tell one from another. (Mr. Rushide has something to say on it ... Magic Realism)

3. This is for a very small unfortunate %age of the population (the ones who truly suffer). They know the principle of optimization and try to find a ballance between A and B. Even more unfortunately, they know that optimization dosent work in many cases, so they spend a lot of time trying to optimize the theroy itself. The only hope they have is that all their theories are by nature self correcting. (You can tell these guys by the degrees they hold, like B.Tech, M.Tech, M.Sc, MBA and so on.)