"Why not?" - a typical question that a child asks
Maybe we should do more of that questioning. They have a never ending ability to ask why.
It seems to be that as we get older we set up many rules for ourselves. Culture and environment help mold us into not asking why. We make rules or abide by rules that were set up many years ago. Often we do not know the logic of why the rule was set up in the first place. We just know to follow it.
In an old self-help story a husband ask his wife why she always cuts the end of a ham before she bakes it. She answers that that is something her mother always did. They decide to call the mother and when they ask her she answers with the familiar...that is something that my mother always used to do.
The three of them call the grandmother. When they ask her why she always cut the end of a ham she smiles and says... because my pan was not big enough for it to fit.
Today's question is:
"What rules are you following that no longer make sense?"
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