Question

"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continunace."
Frank Moore Colby

Do you ask a lot of questions? Those who have lived with children are very familiar with the number of questions a child asks. Why is he doing that? How does it do that? When are we going to get there? Who is the fat woman over there? All day long. Sometimes it seems tiresome to us as parents but there certainly is a correlation between all the questions they ask and the rate their minds are growing.

When we get to be adults, we start to think that we know everything we need to know in order to live our lives and that's all that's important. Our world is one of practicalities. We are no longer concerned with whether the sun travels as long as it shines in the sky and gives us heat. We don't care about why fireflies glow because whether they glow or not doesn't change our lives. But this dull acceptance of the world as just being the way it is dulls our minds and our lives. There is no child-like wonder and enthusiasm for our surroundings any more.

If we don't ask any questions, we are not going to be motivated to find out answers. We are not going to learn anything. And if we are not learning, we are not growing. We will have missed the reason for our existance, which is to learn and grow. Life is not fun unless we are busy seeking out answers, and learning about our capabilities. There is no happiness unless we are finding the answers to problems we have posed ourselves. And there is no success unless we learn the answer to some problem. Always be inquisitive.

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