One Apple A Day #367
We all start with the same questions.
Who am I? What do I want? What’s the meaning of my life? How can I be happy? How can I make my family happy? Where do I find love?
And so on.
We may use different words, different languages. Sometimes we hide those questions in others. Sometimes we are so scared that we refrain from asking them.
But the questions are there. And they are all the same. And we are all equal before those questions.
Then, sometimes we find one answer, inside or outside.
We are happy and proud of our answers.
We want to share them with others.
And then something happens. I don’t know why, but at some point, we begin focusing only on the answers. We got attached to our, and we don’t understand why the others can’t see that our answer is THE answer. We start making boundaries. Conversations become confrontations.
Yet, beneath those answers, the questions are all the same.
What would happen if we start every conversation by shifting the focus on the questions?
We will discover that we have the same questions. That at the core, we have more in common than we would think.
But most of all, we will open up. Because questions are keys that open doors while answers are locks that close ourselves in our small rooms.
Please, next time you meet someone, start with the questions and not from the answers.