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WHY?
Why?
Is an essential question.
Why?
Why? is a question which comes naturally to children. Adults, on the other hand, have a tendency to forget the importance of asking why.
Why?
To ask why we do the things we do is part of our daily lives, part of our culture. This question helps us to reflect on the effects our actions have on ourselves, on others and on our habitat.
Why?
Why is such a wonderful small word with an inquiring sound to it. To invite this question into our minds can be very scary.
Why?
The trick is to allow for the question why? and push out all the internalised answers. Yes, let them all roll out. Then look again. Ask again WHY? And begin to explore the why from every possible direction.
There will still be answers trying to disrupt your thinking process. Give them a moment. Then push them aside and continue with your exploration.
At the end of this road, you will have learned a lot by thinking for yourself, by testing your theories, by re-adding those answers you knew which still hold.
The result will be a rich tapestry of complexity and some understanding which you can use to make a difference in a world that is too often satisfied with parroting.
Why?
It is comparatively easy to expose where others go wrong and do harm. However, often investigators stop there. They expose and congratulate themselves for being clever.
They don’t ask why something happened, why some people act like this or that.
But only WHY can hand the key to actual change. Because WHY exposes the root causes of the troubles most planets face.
Why?
On our planet, centuries ago, we used to teach our children everything they needed to know. Or so we thought. The point our ancestors missed was that knowledge is not as important as thinking, questioning, rethinking, shaping, keeping the mind ever evolving, ever expanding. Asking why is an important tool to go beyond what we are taught and told. And a thinking mind will always find additional knowledge and be able to weave it into what it has already discovered.
Why?
Asking why is a key to exploring what it takes to create a world worth living in.