Readers,
How often do we question the reasons behind the things that we do?
When we are young, we are naturally curious to want to know the reasons for everything. As we get older, we become more content accepting many things on face value.
My manager shared a beautiful story with me a week or so ago that I would like to share with you all that illustrates this point very well.
There was a young girl who observed her mother preparing a lamb stew every couple of weeks. Before her mother would put it in the oven, she would cut off a bit from the corner and throw it away. This was done every single time her mother prepared this dish. Then one day, this young girl asked the mother why she would always cut off the end piece and throw it away. The mother was taken aback. She had to admit that she didn't know. The reason that she did this was that she saw her mother doing it and was merely copying her. She told her young daughter to ask the grandma the reason.
When the young child next met the grandmother, she asked her the same question about why the end of the lamb was always cut.
The grandmother replied that when she was younger and preparing the dinner, the oven she owned was not big enough to fit the whole lamb inside, so she had to cut a bit to make it fit.
I found it a beautiful and inciteful anecdote which I considered worth sharing.
"Why" and "because" are two of the most important words in our vocabulary so let us never forget that and strive to use them as regularly as possible, because if we don't, our actions will not have a solid foundation built on knowledge.
