Sunday, May 07, 2006

Oh, why is it so?

Why? Such a small word and yet such a loaded question. I mean think about it. How many times a day do we ask or wonder why something is the way it is. In one of my classes recently, our teacher gave us an assignment to explain why we ask why. The assignment seemed simple enough. So, of course, I sat down and I thought, and thought, and thought. Eventually I came to a conclusion. Its human nature to ask "why". As humans we have a natural drive to find out how things work and the reasons they occur. We are never satisfied with "because". So after I came to this brilliant conclusion I sat feeling very satisfied with myself, until I was hit with another thought... Why must we know why?

I gave up...

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