Why? or Is

Why?

Loaded question? Simple inquiry? Seeking answers to that question seems like it is quite possibly one of man/womankinds biggest assets towards our evolution as a species. It is simultaneously one of our biggest snaffoos. If we ask Why? we must now spend time seeking out the answer. Processing the information that comes with that information. Developing opinions, perceptions and emotions regarding the answer. Acting and/or reacting according to those opinions, perceptions and emotions. Making decisions based on all of this and assimilating it all into our now freshly adjusted reality. We like to call it learning. I don’t disagree with this title, but if we for a minute embrace the act of not asking Why? and rather just accept Is do we not then learn as well?

We ask Why are you different from me? Why is this perspective different from mine? Why do they not see my way as the right way? Why is my way the wrong way? Why should I do this? Why should I do that? Why should I feel this or that? Why do I feel this or that? Why God? Why not God? Why is there a God? Why do people believe in Gods? Why does this hurt when I put it in my butt? Why? Why? Why? We by nature are answer seekers. So we continue to slog through all the mysteries of every new Why? that pops up and you guessed it, problems develop.

You see not everybody learns the lessons taught to them by the answers to the question of Why? Some people have a tendency to ask Why?, see no personal benefit in the answer and handle it with the eternally angry WHY SHOULD I!? FUCK YOU. This is when people learn and then choose via their own free will to ignore the education provided by the answers to the question. This is self created ignorance. It’s the worst side effect of the question Why? and is based out of fear. It’s this which decimates all the benefits that come from being a natural born answer seeker. A wise man once told me that you can ask the Universe for answers and it will provide them. The problem with this is once you find the answers, you can’t un-find them. There’s no going back. So we answer seekers have a tendency to build a thick skin of denial around those unliked answers and defend that denial with fearful anger until it becomes hate. It’s a cyclical counterproductive experience all stemming from asking the evolutionary question of Why? and then being unwilling to accept the answer.

Let me ask you this, if the occassion to ask Why? were to arise in your life today, as I’m sure it eminently will, and you decided to not seek the answer or answers…would the world quit spinning? Birds plummet from the sky? Frogs fill your rain gutters? Sink holes consume humanity? Your inny become an outty? I think that would be a bit far fetched don’t you? What would happen, I believe, would be acceptance. Acceptance of something that is unknown, maybe even a bit scary, without explanation. It just simply Is. No Why? Just Is. This would be a huge challenge for most. The benefit to this, however would be palpable I believe. I think it could be globally impactful if done en mass. In fact I believe we are close to the perfect time in the human evolutionary process to quit asking Why?. We are growing out of the need for it.  It’s time for Is. Let’s try this…

If aliens from another….place were to appear in our reality and say hello with no desire to destroy us what would be the benefit of asking Why? Could it possibly be better to simply approach this experience with “Ok, cool.” and then move on with life accepting that aliens are here. No need to dissect and analyze it to death or hate them for being them. They just Is.

Or how about something closer to home? The next time someone whom is different from you, which is everybody, comes into your world try just accepting them. Color, gender, religious or sexual preference, culture or background becoming unimportant. Just acceptance. They just Is who and what they Is. No Why? do they not fit in my box of reality. Just Is. I think someday this might be possible, however, in order for this to become reality there must also be an acceptance of self….letting go of some of the most personal of Why?’s. The ones in ourselves that we are not comfortable with. The seriously difficult Why’s. At the present moment I view it as almost an insurmountable, yet possible, challenge of the human race due to that nasty self imposed shroud of denial wrapped in fearful anger and hatred.

I don’t completely blame Why? for this. After all we wouldn’t have made it this far without that exact question. Fear is an instinctually innate part of humanity and must be evolved through. Grown beyond. It’s a fine line, treading this transitionary place of mankind. This changing of the guard from Why? to Is. People must learn to let go of the fear of the answers they have been given by the Universe. We must accept those answers and be ok with them within ourselves. So, today, no matter where you find yourself along this path, whether it’s Why or Is or a little of both, I just have one request…..do your fucking job….evolve.