Why Why Why (Beauty of Wonder)

4. Asking questions—especially “why?”—is always 
beautiful. Why? Because curiosity is beautiful.

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This is the particular topic I am going to be covering in my blog this post and I am honestly really excited and anxious to get to writing on this subject. I firmly and positively agree that there is nothing mroe beautiful than asking questions and being inquisitive. The reason I believe this particular theory is because my inquisitive mind is one of my personal traits in myself. It would amaze a person to learn how big and grand this world is and what lies within it, most of which are gone unseen due to ignorance, in exposure, or falsified myths. 

As a mom of two young children, I have had the pleasure of introducing these two individuals to the world around them. When I started going through the "Why" phase with my daughter, at first I was understanding, then I grew to becoming annoyed, eventually it trickled out to ashamed, and now there are times I have realized that sometimes the best response is "it's adult business". I understand that I totally contradict my first statement which is that it is beautiful, and in that I hold myself accountable and this is why. Set aside the fact that my daughter is SMART for her age and lets focus on the nitty gritty. Faith is inquisitive because she wants to broaden her knowledge and learn more about the world around her. She hears us speaks, knows what we are saying, but wants to know why something is being said or what is provoking it. She wants to know what is happening in the world around her, it's not that she feels entitled to it, but she wants to feel included in it. 

Isn't that what we all strive for when we have a questions and want to know why something is, was, or will be? it's not necessarily a bad thing to want to know why or how things work; In my own heart I feel bad that we are at the time of my daughter's life that we have to limit our adult only conversations to our own proximity but I am also the parent who is upfront and honest with her so that the questions don't become unresolved or negative wonders in my child's mind.

The wondering mind of a child is amazing but through my experience I realize that it is never gone. All throughout our lives, we seek to learn more and there is a certain thirst or hunger inside each and every one of us to learn more about various things. In Kindergarten and Elementary School, we are all excited to learn how to read, do basic math, geometry, and no one necessarily asks why they just do. The experience is fun and it always helps when you have a group of friends to enjoy them with. 

Somewhere in middle school is when the will to learn and wonder starts to become extinct because it is no longer cool, we become more independent, and have the mindset that we don't need to learn "this stuff because we will never use it". That attitude stays in most throughout high school as well. Of course there are the people who get straight A's and are awesome students, they work hard and achieve their highest potential. Not always are those students the ones to inquire as into why or how something works, but those are who often the questions of why and how get asked to which make them just as beautiful.

I had absolutely no clue what questioning, wondering, or the importance of asking why and how was until well into my college endeavor. When I started my philosophical journey, I absolutely fell in love with it because I have always had a mind that has always ran at 100mph thinking all day and night about anything and everything. I used to be told that "I think too much" or when I think it would be considered fearsome, what I learned was that my thinking just needed a place to go and to be free to wonder in. That's exactly what Philosophy gave me, a safety net to wonder, ask the questions of why, but yet never seek an absolute answer....