Preface: I am a math major but I started out as a mechanical engineer major. And still I am not sure what I want to do. 

I am taking Philosophy as an elective and to me it boggles my mind because of a few reasons:

  1. why would one study philosophy
  2. why should one study philosophy 
  3. Philosophy is a gateway to many answer, but it is just the start. The question
  4. Does it have an end?
  5. there are philosophers who were not mere philosophers but economists, mathematicians etc 
  6. there were philosophers who were simply philosophers
  7. If its all in the book, why not just sell on the shelf, why pay someone to read it to us
  8. to me is all about rationalizing things, reasoning it out

Now some of my bullets sounds a bit negative but in perspective its all I want to do, I want answers, so I feel I am a lost soul. I feel all these question that boggle my mind are mere simplicity but in philosophy class they are seen as impeccable. 

And I do not mean all those fakes who speak in their weird way, trying to sound all abstract and “smart”

I have always question everything but lacked some confidence to ask them all out loud…

I like Philosophy because it makes me able to express myself more clearly, to wonder what is rely right from wrong, the morality of our being, of our lives. The reason for our existence! The “What ifs…” the whys , the how comes etc