Why… How we lose our life purpose at age two.

My daughter — at age two — is now asking the one-word question that many dread.

Why?

We dread it because it can get very, very confronting.

“Papa, where are you going?”

“I’m going to work!”

“Why?”

“Because I have to.”

“Why?”

“Because I’ve got a meeting with someone.”

“Why?”

Unless I’m ready to deal with the fact — that I’m usually not doing something that’s aligned to my life’s purpose/s — I resist dealing with the series of ‘whys’.

Many adults resist that persisting question too. And so I observe children being told (directly and indirectly) to simply “stop asking so many whys”.

But notice that ‘Why?’ is what children learn to really ask — before ‘How’, ‘Who’, ‘What’ …

Isn’t it devastating?

We learn to persist — as children — in asking the one question that could truly save us from lives without purpose.

And that’s the one thing, that we’re generally told to stop doing right from the start.