reading your post reminds me from the famous scientist Albert Einstein's quote saying:
" If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem, and 5 minutes thinking about the solutions."
I have a fundamental question since i was a child, and i've never have an answer by now, the more i think about the question "Why am I here?" the more i became curious about life, i read lots of books covering philosophy , politics, history, science, but yet i never satisfied from what i learned, but i think life is all about learning new stuff and there will be no ending at eat, it's because it is part of the evolution of human being.
The genius in simplicity!