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Why?

The question, often asked by the inquisitive and those who are readily receptive to new knowledge and realization. This question is the best method any human being can utilize to achieve understanding. The most perplexing part is that the world comprise so many ornery people who likely contribute to all the wars and misunderstandings that engulf the “once was” peaceful land.

Why don’t we develop the mindset of asking why when we don’t understand why certain things work the way they work, or are done the way they are done, or are the way they are? It seems as time goes, the world tardily loses love and the need to understand, in lieu of developing an inquisitive mindset. The world is, simply, losing the true value of life which is “love”. It is quite conspicuous that love is the currency of life, but so many people choose to be deliberately broke owing to their inextricable attachment to their own ego and conceit. Most humans still confuse showing love and kindness with being puny. 

The order of the world is quite perplexing, indeed. 

The calamity this generation is faced with is that so many people’s chance to learn is being hindered by the fallacious belief that often enquiring about things which they lack understanding of will put them at the risk of being deemed half-wits, owing to the other fallacious belief that intelligent people know, if not everything, a lot of things; therefore, a room for inquisitiveness is not ubiquitous in these people’s world. They believe that those who are deemed geniuses or intelligent possess superpowers of obtaining a tacit or feasible understanding of how a  lot of things work in this world, which is quite lucid that asking too many questions would make their followers to begin to doubt their mental abilities. 

We all have things and people we abhor or, rather, don’t like; but has anyone ever took a moment to ask themselves why they feel the way they do about a certain people or things? 

Why do we hate other humans for being born into a different race? Why do we hate other humans over their devout beliefs? Why do we hate humans who have never bereaved us or offended us in any way, simply because of their sexuality? Why do we hate our fellow Africans for being born in other parts of Africa? Why do we even perceive them as foreigners, in Africa? You often find South Africans referring to people who are of the same race and skin color as them, as foreigners…In all honesty, there’s no act of imbecility which surpasses this one. Imagine addressing your own sisters and brothers as foreigners and with utter contempt and insolence, while addressing foreigners with utter respect and referring to them as tourists nor investors. Has anyone ever asked why things are like that?

Why do people accept sempiternal employment as a quid pro quo for neglecting their dreams? Why are we so scared of failure so much, yet we contemporaneously want to achieve great things? If we cannot make a top 5 list of overachievers who have not failed in the past, then why are we so afraid of failing while we desire to become like them or reach their level of success? 

Why do we (Africans) chose to become highly skilled querulous characters who habitually complain about poverty and our insufficiency yet we squander every penny we attain on frivolous materials and entertainment? Should we still blame the government for our misfortunes? Or, maybe God hates Africans…

The world is wandering in wilderness. People do what they aren’t supposed to do and don’t do what they aren’t supposed to. Has anybody, ever asked why?

Why don’t we ask why when we don’t understand why?

Why?

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