Is Life a Question or a Question Answered?

Is Life a Question or a Question Answered? by R. Breuer Stearns What a thought provoking query! For me, life is a cosmic question and a highly personal question answered. Said differently, the question "Why life?" seems currently unanswerable from a scientific perspective and answerable with some or much doubt, depending on how willing you are to inject Faith into your reasoning. Life, the purpose and meaning of life in the cosmic philosophical sense is unfathomable to me. However, life, in a personal sense, is a question answered ... indeed, a highly individualized question answered. I imagine my own life as an existence/adventure that presents a stream of alternatives, questions, and decisions. How an individual anticipates and responds to these various paths determines the course of that individual's life, thereby answering the question, "What is my life?" Note that this "what" question is much narrower than the "why" question. In m