YOUR LIFE A-Z: WHY

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WHY

WHY is a very interesting three-letter word.  WHY is often a three-letter drug.  Often you seek answers to WHY something is happening assuming if  you could know WHY then you could control or change the outcome.  Insight as to WHY something is happening is sometimes helpful but not necessarily useful.  When you understand the WHY of something it does not necessarily help you change it.  Thus, don’t spend unnecessarily energy fretting about something when you could be best be served by changing your actions or behavior even when you  don’t understand WHY.   However, if you can let go of the addiction of always having to understand the WHY,  it frees you up to explore what you going to do about something. What action needs to be taken is more useful than the WHY.   WHY the car crashed may be useful in the long run but what needs to be done about the car crash is the first question that needs to be asked.  WHY is important to ask after the emergency has been handled.  WHY is important in this case only to learn from it.  WHY is a useless question if you are hammering your fist through the wall asking WHY God allowed this to happen.  WHY you are sick may be useful question after you have begun to heal, but it is not the first question to ask when you are sick.  When you hear yourself asking WHY listen closely and ask yourself, “Is this WHY question making me a victim?”