There is so much to say. There are volumes to be written which no one will read except other philosophers because they will not be hot gossip, appear on a blog post, a portal or breaking news.

Coming from the Greek root words philo- meaning “love” and -sophos, or “wisdom” philosophy is soft, infinitely important, not pushy and uninclined to spectacular displays that might land it the cover page of a magazine. Philosophy is, and should be, something at peace with the real life and struggles we face each day, because it is a tool, equally a release form anxiety as it is anxiety provoking by asking the big questions we so often don’t want to ask because it is easier to drown their nagging whispers in the high-pitched screeches of temporary distractions. Philosophy is not empty idle chatter of those unwilling to work, for the socially awkward ones residing solely within their own minds. It is not a waste of time to study, but is designed to make you literate, able to think, discuss things and release what shows itself to not stand the test of scrutiny. It is here to make you infinitely strong within yourself by the power to form an argument and present it to the world, it makes you a superpower and responsible for change by giving you a voice, because things without a voice are slaves to circumstance.

Most of our problems are not deriving from the hearts of systems we’re living in. For a large chunk of humanity this is as good as it ever was. The long permeating doubts and anxieties are not situational because situations change, they come and go. They are not problems of limited opportunities because we’ve never had so many of them. It’s an issue of clarity and never being taught how to break a thing down into its components, look at it from all angles and derive a logical conclusion, of which some of them you might not like because they mean the necessity to change. Now that you can see there is no going back to the status Q and that is scary.

Philosophy is a guide and a consolation of accumulated knowledge, a database of solution on how to deal with the hopeless everlasting feeling of never knowing enough and always feeling like you’re on the brink of figuring this life thing out, just to be taken out again by the next thing that rears its head. Philosophy will teach you that having one question answered, only to have it open three more, is all right. It’s a perpetual exploration of being human and applicable in reality as gentle intelligence rather than brute force. It is softness when all else is hard, and hard on you when you go soft, an intimate relationship with someone who tried to wrap their head around the same things as you did and maybe came up with a better solution. It’s good, therapeutic, deep, smart, strong, a full blown analysis on tribulations of fragments of life or its whole. So when in doubt, get calm, breathe, sit down, make a cup of tea and crack open the mind of a philosopher. Read, learn, explore, find answers. It just might teach you how to save yourself, in fact it most certainly will.