Questions are scary.
They take a lot to ask. You have to get ready to answer them. They are unpredictable. If the world fit into basket we want it to, then there is no anxiety. If no one asks questions after finishing, then we get comfort.
But I wager the scariest thing isn’t that people ask questions. The scariest thing to people is that questions lead to answers.
Questions lead to answers.
Question lead to answers, even if we don’t want to hear them.
The answers can come in many forms, based on how people treat you, what they say, or how they act afterwards, but questions lead to answers.
That’s a hard thing to swallow because we end up having to deal with not being right. The idea of not making the most of our situation, and dealing with the idea that we aren’t going to be right with our assumptions.
It isn’t an easy task, and people block questions all the time. It isn’t an easy way to ask a lot of the time. The people around you shush you, and your ego tries to do so by making your stomach hurt.
Throwing a rock against the glass
Every time we ask a question, we throw a rock. There is fear through throwing the rock, but the bigger fear is breaking the glass.
The glass is our interpretation of the world. Each layer is foggier and foggier, changing our reality.
We all see things differently, because we see with our brains, and not our eyes. It is an important distinction, because if you think you see the world as it is, there is no room for questioning anything wholeheartedly, and you have effectively shut yourself off.
They say perception is reality, but that saying is for people who do not bother to try to see reality. It is a saying of comfort. It is fear talking.
That fear is debilitating.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 