“Why” does everything take place as it
does? “Why” are we here? “Why” can we not simply do things the way we
want them to be done? The list of such
questions will continue to grow for us individually as we continue to advance
in age. The questions will become more
complicated; they will become more difficult for us to answer. That is if we are able to do so at all!
That reminds me of a joke that I once
heard when I was much younger. It had to
deal with our human desire to find answers too many questions and yet to do so
without much effort on our part personally.
The joke went something like this:
There was a television game show allowing
individuals to participate in an opportunity to win ONE MILLION dollars! All
they had to do was answer correctly a series of questions. The questions were based on different topics
and varied in difficulty.
One contestant had made his way toward the
top answering question after question correctly. Then with his opportunity to win the GRAND prize at hand he was asked his
final question. The Host of the program
told the contestant that the final question consisted of TWO parts and
he could answered them in any order he chose, but he must answer his selection
correctly to advance to the next part of the question. The contestant was also told that the first part
of the question was very difficult and the second part was easy.
The contestant thought for a moment and
then responded: “I’ll answer the second
part of the question first!” The Host opened
the envelope and, looking at the contest, said:
“The second part of the question is ‘WHY’?” The contestant simply hung his head in
defeat!
Had the Host been deceptive to the
contestant? Not at all, the second part
of the question was easy - - - IF you knew the answer to the first part of the
question! Therein lays our dilemma! We always want to do things the easy
way: WHY? Because we’re
only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"We may never know WHY,
but can we deal with the situation anyway?"
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