Everyday my girls ask me questions, as they seek to interact with the world and learn more about it. It comes naturally and it is something that I really encourage. Because how can we ever grow, if we do not question the world and everything within it.
On an average day, I get asked such wonderfully diverse questions, they can be anything from, how clouds are made? to what a certain word means in French, or how horses communicate with one another? Sometimes I know the answers and sometimes one of my 3 girls do. My eldest daughter was able to tell me how horses say hello to each other, by smelling each others noses apparently.(I must say that I do love the smell of horses nostrils, and was quiet pleased to find that anytime I was doing it, that I was actually greeting them.)
If one of us doesn't know the answer, then we try and find out together. It is really important to me, that my girls always ask questions. So that they learn to really think for themselves and not just settle for what they are told.
To seek an answer and then sit with it and really see if it resonates with them.
Some questions are super easy to answer.But when they ask me questions which relation to certain events, I always reply, that unless it was something I experienced personally, then I can only share my interpretation of the events that happened.
That in order to get some truth, you need to speak with someone that experienced the event first hand. Most of the time, what we hear from others are what they have been told, stories that have been weaved, to push a certain agenda or other. On top of that each country can be very biased, when it comes to sharing information about other countries.
We often grow up holding certain opinions about places and people, until we actually visit them or meet them ourselves. To be honest, we need to take things with a pinch of salt, to remember that most things are stories, that overtime can change to suit different needs.
Truth in itself is a fickle thing, because no matter how many people experience the same event, their experience of it will be different. So that we end up with so many different narratives. So what is most important, is finding our own truth!
And we achieve that by asking questions and nurturing our intuitive mind. Something we have mostly been taught to switch off when we attend educational institutions. There we are told that certain things are facts, especially when they are told to us by those in specific professions. ( Of course I don't deny that there are certain facts.)
But I have learnt, that some of those professions are simply repeating what they have been told to say, because there are certain expectations, about what is deemed necessary for us to know.
This had never been more evident that today, when despite so many people speaking out about what is happening, they get over shadowed by a select few, who have been chosen to speak! Chosen so that we are told, only what we those in power want us to know.
Suddenly we are witnessing how corrupt our system is. That almost everyone can be bought or silenced for a price. So encouraging everyone to ask questions is paramount right now!
It's when we stop asking questions, that our children will also stop asking and just settle for what they are told.
I really don't understand, why so many people suddenly began to trust the governments again. Began to believe that they actually care for our health, when they have shown us consistently down through the years, that they don't. Allowing the air and water to be polluted, our food to be poisoned and so many trees to be cut down. All of which we need to survive.
When the health industry has been taken over by pharmaceutical companies who make billions each year out of our ill health. The Government, cares more about Business and profit, than they do, about individual well being! When you stop asking questions, you risk never knowing the truth!