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A question worth asking?

 "What do you want?" I've wrestled over this question more than most. For years I spent time trying to answer the question, but as I've grown a little older, and hopefully a little wiser, I've thought more about whether that question matters whatsoever. It is very egocentric, in the grand scheme of things. A soldier in war cannot spend time on that questions. It matters not. The truly poor of our world needn't bother with this question in the midst of their struggle to survive. It matters not. There are many, a majority, in our world who spend little time on a question such as this. It matters not. But I still think about this question. Not just the answer, but the worthiness of this question as it stands. I think about the Garden of Eden and the purity of freedom that existed there. This question mattered there, and for a man named Adam and a woman named Eve. This question was unadulterated by sin or compulsion. They chose, at least for a time, that what matt