Why the 'why' & 'how' questions are so hard to answer.

We all grew up understanding there are only six questions: who, what, where, when, why, and how. The ‘who’ ‘what’ ‘where’ and ‘when’ are concrete realities everyone can agree upon. But the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ is what makes debates take life.

You can easily point to the ‘who’ that did the ‘what’ and ‘where’ and ‘when’. We cannot easily point to the ‘how’ and especially the ‘why’. The reason this is, is because reality at the end of the day is different for each one of us. Two people can have different ‘whys’ and different ‘hows’ and yet come to the same ‘who’ ‘what’ ‘where’ and ‘when’. A person’s ‘why’ will create there ‘how’. But each person’s ‘why’ is dependent upon their own perspective of reality.

You could think of each person’s perspective as an individual wave in a pool. If you have only one wave in the pool you can see what is happening. But as soon as you introduce another wave once these two collide you create a third wave. Eventually each wave will hit the side of the pool and bounce back creating yet more waves. Very quickly you end up with a choppy wave reality. Waves are crashing into one another constantly and creating yet more waves. So now to pick out one of the waves and ask why that wave is the way it is can become very difficult. How can you trace back said wave in the pool of infinite waves? Where did it begin where will it end? The truth is it never really began and it may never really end. And this is what makes the ‘why’ and consequently the ‘how’ question so hard to answer.