Did you ask a lot of questions when you were a kid?
Like Why? When? How?
It's a stage that every child goes through and every parent grows to hate, especially when you don't have all the answers.
When did I stop asking questions like, Why? or How come?
Probably out of that unconditional faith and trust that children have, that everything will work out. That all the grown ups in this world seem to know the right ways to do things, so everything will be ok.
Good things happen to good people right, right?
But then all of a sudden these questions start coming back into your head, especially as you get older.
You get sick of people telling you what you HAVE to do, you feel like you have no choices and life stops being fun. You are not suppose to question things, you are meant to just do what is expected of you.
But my brain can't help being like the inquisitive child, trying to wrap my head around the why?
I can understand that we all have rules to live by.
Life is just like that.
Rules to keep people safe.
Rules so that everyone has money to buy the things they need - food, shelter, medicine.
But when you live by these rules and still struggle to have money, to have safety, to have food, to have shelter, to have medicine.
It is my human right to start asking why?
And how can I change this?
I know it is not just me, as I see many people, from lots of different parts of the world, that struggle with this too.
Why is there so much poverty in the world?
We are told growing up, that it is all about getting an education, to get that well paying job, and everything will be solved.
If this is true, then how come there are so many un employed?
How come there is so much poverty?
How come there are so many un happy people?
A lot of countries have free education.
But is that education really free?
Just because our children go to school, are they actually learning anything?
And if they come out of school and have actually learnt anything, is it helpful?
How do we keep ourselves safe?
We abide by the rules of society and if you don't the justice system will deal with it. Right?
How come there is so much crime?
How come in a lot of countries the only way a person feels safe is to have their own weapon? What ever that weapon is, to feel safe.
Incidents like 911, Daniel Morcombe, and even the earth quakes that hit Christchurch, New Zealand, and so many more, that I can't name them all, make you realise pretty quickly that you are not safe.
Lots of people would look at all those examples and say, those situations are all out of our control. There is nothing we can do to change any of those things from happening.
Another words, not my problem.
But is it?
Is there anything that any of us can do to change how safe we are?
Rules so we can be as healthy as we can be.
Meanwhile people are still dying, of starvation, malnutrition, illness.
Even though we have scientist, engineers, inventors, supposedly doing everything they can, being paid good money, to come up with solutions and cures, so that we can be as healthy as we can be.
If there was a cure or solution to change these things, would it be available to everyone?
Or would it only be available to the wealthy?
Or would it not be made available at all because some organisation or institution would then, not be able to make money off the sick and starving?
Rules so our food is safe to eat and there is plenty of it.
But if there are so many rules around this, why is there so much food that is sold to us that is un healthy for us?
Who is allowed to grow food?
How you are to grow your food?
What you are allowed to look after your food with?
What can you do with your food?
What food is safe for you and what is not?
With all these rules, how can any food that is being sold to the public be bad for us?
And after all these rules, where does having fun, being with our families and being happy fit in?
Are we not meant to have any of that?
STUFF THAT!
All I have at this stage is questions, but I think it is good to ask questions.
Because by asking questions you can become more clear on what you want out of life.
Because I believe you have choices and these choices can bring you changes so that you can find the fun in your life again and be happy and spend valuable time with your family.
I find myself on a journey with my family, trying to find the answers that suit us.
So we can be safe, have food, shelter and medicine.
And most of all be HAPPY!
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