This is something that I've been thinking about for a while but had hard time putting into words, so please forgive me if I seem to ramble.
As adults we spend a large part of our lives saying yes. Yes, we will love and cherish someone forever; yes, will take care of our children; yes, we will please our bosses; yes, we will provide for our aging parents. Think about all of the times you say yes in a day. In order to be a productive, cooperative, and likeable members of society yes is a necessity. We spend our days saying yes in order to get better jobs with more pay and we spend our nights saying yes in order to live peaceably with our families.
There’s nothing wrong with saying yes, just look at all the great things 'yes' has brought us. A yes allows us to share with others and live in harmony, a yes gave us civil rights and women’s suffrage, and a yes helps provide us with a means to an end.
The problem arises when we say 'yes' without asking 'why?'. Too often we say yes to appease others without questioning the reasons why we are doing something in the first place. As children it often seems like our favorite word is why. Think back to any time spent with a curious youngster and you can probably recall a time when you answered a seemingly endless stream of 'Why?'
If nobody asked why, we would still be living as cavepeople; rubbing sticks together for fire, wearing loincloths, clubbing one another to drag home for companionship. If we continue to be a society that says only 'yes' without first asking 'why' we will lose all of our creativity and ingenuity. We should question everything, we have everything to gain!
