As someone who has been asking why questions for over half a century and experiencing the reactions to them, including discomfort, fear, and anger--this resonated with me.
"There is really nothing more to say—except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
—Toni Morrison
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With me too!
If we want to solve problems, we really need to face the 'why!' :-) Otherwise we'll just repeat them using different 'how.' :-(
I think why is really the question. And lately in the world, there are a lot of why's to answer. Aren't there?
There sure are!
Me too Shari.
I'm an asker. I want to know why, where and how. Why you are where you are. How long did it take you to get there. There are many people that don't like it but I am not inclined to change one iota.
Right now I am asking "How in the world did we get to this point?" With crazy men doing and saying crazy things, and crazy people that hear it and say, "Yeah, that completely makes sense." Not to mention crazy men that are killing their neighbors en masse for completely idiotic reasons.
Do I sound hysterical? It's been a long day.
No, you don't sound hysterical 🙂 Those are very sensible things to be thinking about!
I think a lot of this has been going on somewhere in the world all along, albeit in different ways that fit within whatever culture and time they're happening in. This seems to be what humans do. 😢
I would not know how to exist without frequently thinking, 'I wonder why...' Got me through my childhood successfully and I haven't stopped since. Too old to change that now, even if I wanted to. That's OK--it has served me well!
Agree
Me, too!
Hi, dear Shari,
I didn't stop to ask WHY, too, but sometimes it makes me crazy.
And very often the answer is, "Because people are greedy."
All the best,
Traude
https://rostrose.blogspot.com/2022/04/italien-reisebericht-zwei-relaxtage-und.html
Yes, that's true :-( I also think that asking why questions leads to answers that, if they're honest, will cause people to face a reality they find distressing and/or will make them realize that the way we live now (at least in wealthy countries) cannot continue to be if we are to have a habitat to live in. The latter requires changes that people don't want to make.
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