I was watching one of my favourite series again - CSI Las Vegas. At the end Gil Grissom said something very important I think.
'Men assume, they don't ask about the why. ... It took five people to murder one person, but if only one had asked why he did what he was doing, why he felt unwell, he might have been still alive.'
I kept sitting for a while and thought about this words and began asking myself how often I already made up my mind about people from assumptions rather from asking. How often was I already wrong and missed the chance to get to know someone probably very interesting better because of these prejudices?
I'm no parent and most likely never will be, but I remember the times when I or my sister were keeping to ask 'Why?' because we wanted to know only to see we were annoying the adults. But shouldn't we keep asking? Shouldn't we encourage our children to ask, even at the risk being bombarded by question we probably can't answer?
I know this might not be the right place to post such philosophical question, yet I needed to tell someone of my thoughts.
Saphira Leonie Gardner,
who promises she will open her eyes and ears more to get answers rather then assumptions.
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Why?
Many children are discouraged from asking "Why?". Why does this happen - at a young age, they learn that if they ask it often enough, they get someone angry. They also learn that getting someone to explain things, specially something they don't want to do, postpones it. This encourages the Why chain, which many people discourage.
So, I suspect NOT asking Why gets trained into MANY people.
Another question worth asking is "Why not?" Make the world a beter place? Why Not?
Annette
Of course we should keep
Of course we should keep asking why, that's the only thing that will make better people out of us and it will make us wiser..
What we will make out of ourselves depends much on the ability of askying why?
To stop asking would be a BIG mistake.
*huggles*
Fiona