We Killed "Why?"

I was jogging around my neighborhood today.  On the final lap one of the little children I had passed several times finally asked, "What are you doing?"  I said, "I am jogging."  She said, "Why are you jogging?"  I said, "for my health."  She had another question she held up on as I continued to jog well past her.  That was when it occured to me, she is the age we all were at one point in time in our lives when we asked "Why?" all the time.  Sometimes we drove our parents nuts.

I also remember when my kids asked "Why?" all the time and it sometimes was a challenge to answer, "Why is the sky blue?"  or "Why are clouds white?"  See if you can provide an intelligent answer on those two questions to a four year old.

Then one day it ended.  That day was the day we (my kids) started to "go to school.".  That was the day the teachers stopped all the kids from asking all their silly questions and listen to how the world worked, compliments of your local school system faculty, administrator, and politicians.  In other words, the school system killed our desire and our kids desire to want to know things out of curiosity and replaced it with "at this age level, here is what you should think and know about the world."  To that I say, "bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

If you are out there reading this post today do what you can to get the kids to start asking "why?" again whenever they choose and not when it suits you.  If we did more of that perhaps kids would have learned that we should not be still celebrating Columbus Day because he was a complete ASSHOLE who did not discover ANYTHING yet we carrry on teaching each new generation of kids what a wonderful thing it was that he did for all us here in this great land we stole from those who lived here.  For a fact check on Columbus, read, "Lies my Teacher Told Me."  See if you think the same things you thought about Columbus after that enlightenment.  Get those kids asking, "Why?"