ColumnsEssayAsking Why Is the Curiosity of Purpose

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Writing ‘why’ is not as easy as asking why in some homes, schools, religious houses, communities, and so on.

Children are taught to apologise to their elders when they( the children) are wrong, but they become perplexed when the elder offends them without any sense of apology, yet they do not ask why.

University students get seated for a scheduled class of 2-4 pm. At 3:30 pm, they get informed by a representative about the absence of their lecturer. They protest silently in anger and wonder why respect often flows from the bottom to the top but could not be reciprocated. Their time, as valuable as the lecturers, had just been wasted. They await a long-held result and wonder why they are so belittled that they do not deserve an explanation from the authorities, Yet they do not ask why.

We have nurtured a culture averse to asking why; so, we see politicians make promises as a ladder into power instead of a project to be fulfilled.

Religiously, in the name of a higher realm, people have bred thorns as bread; painted decay as holy; portrayed manipulation as loyalty; covered insanity with the cap of divine order; violated human rights under the guise of religious rules. The clause “that is how God has made it” or “that is what God said” has been used as an ultimate silencer to critical questions; then we have a citizen of a democratic society with fundamental human rights sentenced to death for committing a religious sin of blasphemy; whereas, the itching judges have not been served their earthly shares of religious punishment for their respective sins. News headlines pop up. A report of a 60 and 58-year-old who left their decaying mother’s corpse in the house appears and the reported reason for their action is “that is what God said”.

“That is what God said” has now become an umbrella under which a pastor kisses females in the church; a shelter that accommodates pornographic demonstrations in the church. It has now become the perfect brain evacuator that moves a person’s intelligence from activeness to passiveness no matter their level of education.

We have nurtured a culture averse to asking why; so, we see politicians make promises as a ladder into power instead of a project to be fulfilled. Countless times, we get shocked when students cannot defend their excellent results because we do not understand that the process of learning itself is a process of asking why.

The saying ‘little drops of water make a mighty ocean’ is the explanation of our problem and the solution to it. Our neglect of basic practices like ‘asking why’ has grown into mighty oceans of corruption, terrorism, and lawlessness. ‘Asking why’ births understanding which means, to deny people access to understanding is to endanger the well-being of our nation; but to empower them with it is to gradually build the resourceful nation we desire. For this reason, we should value the practice of asking why and begin to ask why.

♦ Favour Chiagozie Ebubechukwu is an Editorial  Staff Writer and columnist with the WAP

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