Chapter 15: 100,000 Whys

During the May Day holiday, I didn't choose to go out to play, but chose to hibernate at home. There are a lot of socials in my family, and I like to be quiet, so I always sneak away to other places to read books and surf the Internet while everyone is not paying attention.

My little niece is 5 years old this year, and she is obsessed with watching cartoons, and when I leave the table to be alone, they arrange for my little niece to play with me, and the children in the province are not taken care of. So we were lying on the bed and looking at the phone, and the volume of my niece's phone was turned on very loudly, and I watched it with relish. Children's attention span is limited, and the half-hearted way of doing things is too difficult for them, which is a child's disadvantage, but it can also be regarded as an advantage, as a bystander, for the child's concentration when watching cartoons, when I do things, it is already difficult to do.

After the guests dispersed at home, the niece's mobile phone was also taken away by the eldest brother, after all, it took too long to look at the phone, the child needs to rest, and the adult can also relax. Here comes the problem, my niece suddenly became idle, the kindergarten homework is just a few questions, it has been done, she saw that I was looking at my phone, so she turned her face over, I was reading an e-book, she saw the dense words on the screen, felt very bored and walked away, went out to find snacks, to play with her parents, but because the guests at home had just dispersed, they were also enjoying a short leisure, watching videos for entertainment. After a turn and came back to me, he said pitifully, "Let's go out and play, don't look at your phone." ”

The Mayday was already very warm, and the fig leaves in the yard were already large, and the fruit of the occasional few figs was already very large. The buds of the toon tree are no longer fresh, as if the toon buds have not been picked for a few days. When I left the phone, the child became very active and pulled me to play games with her. After playing for a long time, we were all tired (in fact, I was tired, the child's energy was too strong), we took a small stool to sit in the shadow to play, the door of the house was deliberately set aside one or two meters of Xiazi when building the house, so that there is a long corridor between the houses, and when it rains, the shuttle between the houses will not be wet, there is an abandoned swallow's nest on the Xiazi, the niece seems to notice the swallow's nest, and looks up and says: "Why don't the swallows want this home?" I told her, "Swallows are migratory birds, the kind of birds that fly south to spend the winter when it's cold, and they fly away in the winter, and when they come back in the spring, they may find another place." When she heard the migratory birds, she interjected, "Is it the same as the geese?" I replied yes. Then she asked, "What did the swallow build a house with?" I asked her, "What do you think?" She looked up at the swallow's nest and shook her head. I told her, "Swallows are bird's nests made little by little out of mud and straw." When a child asks a question, even if she gets an answer, she will still look for other questions, and keep asking until she can't answer it, she doesn't seem to mind that the question has no answer, and she doesn't feel mischievous happiness because she asks a question and blinds the adult. She was just curious, just wanting some answer, as to whether the answer was perfect and correct? She didn't care much either. After asking so many questions, I'm not sure if I'll be able to remember them.

More than one person has said that children are like 100,000 whys, always asking questions, and it is a headache to break the casserole and ask in the end. More than one person said that people become immodest when they grow up, and when they encounter problems, they will no longer look for the root cause like children, but often do not know how to pretend to understand or perfunctory, which is also a headache. When I was a child, I was like this, and when I was shirked by adults, my mother said, "Go ask your dad." Dad was so busy with work that he basically didn't have time to talk to me, so I waited until he was free and asked a few questions, and when I got tired of asking, I would encounter: "Go ask your mother." "People say it's sad to be a parent, or a sad thing to be a child. I don't think so, and I can't be labeled "pathetic" because I have suffered perfunctory. Now when I think back to my childhood, I feel blurry, even what happened when I was in elementary school, I don't remember every bit clearly, let alone these insignificant casual questions. Since they will all forget, then the things that have happened during this period of time don't have to be too serious, as long as the father and mother love it's good.

There's a book called "100,000 Whys," which is a mistitle because they put questions and answers together, and perhaps it's better to call it "Answers to 100,000 Whys." Of the two things that ask a question and answer a question, the answer is always much more difficult than asking the question. People who can ask questions are valuable, but they are not worthy of praise and praise, and they should not be put in a high position because people are numb to life, and no longer ask questions, so that the questioner is in a high position, ask questions, and devote himself to answering questions. What I realized was that the importance of learning lies in this, people always ask the society from a utilitarian perspective, what is the use of people learning? After so many years of schooling, I am still unemployed, I still can't afford to buy a house, and I still can't get married...... Ask a good question, let society, let others answer, and they will scoff at you no matter how you answer and point to your nose to tell you the final conclusion: learning is useless! Going to school is even more useless! I don't have anything to do with this kind of grumpy person, and when I meet such a person, I just follow him and say, "Yes, yes, it's useless to study, it's useless to go to school." They left satisfied.

Life is actually very boring, and it would be nice to be able to eat, drink, and live in a lifetime. But living in a muddled way always makes people unwilling. As I walked along the road and picked up a strange part, I would wonder if it might have some other purpose. I think it's the same with people, since they have survived, they must have other uses. As for what it is used for? This is one in 100,000 why, and you need to find the answer yourself. Therefore, people have to look at the world, to study the truths that seem to be ordinary but have strict logic behind them, to answer whys, enrich themselves, and then spend their lives looking for the most important why, what is the answer?

I'm still skeptical, I'm still looking.