I said to my six year old son while he was whistling, ‘don’t whistle at night’. He asked me a question for which I am yet to get an answer. He said ‘mummy why?’ Why can’t I whistle at night?
This awakened my mind to the fact that there are several things we have come to accept because someone, someday, somewhere said, ‘this is the norm’. We accepted it without questioning.
I know some information are best kept for the right age and time but can we explore the power of questions for a second?
What would the world look like if someone did not question the ability of men to fly or that the world was round or flat or square?
What if nobody gave a thought to how man can communicate faster, travel faster and do more within shorter time frame?
Questions give birth to more questions but a well answered question can move a person, a family and a nation miles ahead of their peers. It opens up solutions.
Don’t quench your inquisitive spirit or that of your child.
That inquisitive spirit can lead them to find answers to problems plaguing humanity and the universe.
By the way, who knows why we should not whistle at night? They just told me it is wrong, I have lived with it and I am mistakenly passing it on to my kids as raw as it is.
What have you come to believe about yourself because of what your parents or teachers or peers told you about yourself?
Don’t let another person’s opinion of you determine your reality. Go ahead and proof them wrong.
