DAY 7 – WHY

Earlier today my son and I were watching the news on television They were showing different stories about difficulties people experience in their lives. My son kept saying one word and one sentence over and over again. WHY? WHY? Why do people have problems? Why do people have problems?

It is a deep down human desire to not have problems of any kind. We do not want difficulties for ourselves or for the people we love. We do not want to live in a world where our fellow human beings are having to deal with the unwanted. Yet, we still have problems in our lives.

Most of the time people are living a peaceful and harmonious life. We get along with our spouse, children and parents. We act cordial to our neighbors, co-workers and strangers. We have food, water and a place to live. We are living in peace with our fellow human beings. While most of us only have moments where harmony seems wanting, for some life isn’t so wonderful because they have ongoing struggles that are extremely cumbersome, unruly and physically and emotionally draining.

It is amazing the efforts that are put into making one’s own life problem free and to making this a better world for others. With all of the efforts that parents put into helping their children to have fewer difficulties and the efforts that adults do to help themselves to have fewer problematic situations something pops up and just the opposite occurs. We eventually wind up spending time undoing the unwanted.

Why does all of this happen? Why does life seem to take a turn out of nowhere and have a chaotic outcome even if it is temporary? Why do some difficulties continue year after year? On the face of it, having problems that no one wants and yet everyone has them does not make any sense.

For the rest of the day, my son and I continued to talk about problems people have. Both of us became perplexed by why problems develop and I now realize that everyone at various times in their lives have situations develop that are problematic even though no one wants to have those difficulties.

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