Just something to think about, from one of my
favorites authors -Raven-. Raven: Thank you for
sharing your talent and for being there. I wish you
and sparrow the best in the years to come
Questions
Questions will always be more powerful than statements. Questions will
always linger longer than declarations. But most importantly, questions
will always change the world long after their answers have been forgotten.
Because a questions, a good one at least, does more than say "Here
I am" and take a seat in oblivion. A question is a challenge, it
demands to be answered, it begs to be dealt with and it commands the
attention that only a threat to the status quo can deliver.
It doesn't matter if the question is "Why must life be this
way?" or "What is the capital of Colombia?" a question
challenges the recipient to answer it, it challenges someone to think.
In the best case, the question is answered satisfactorily and
forgotten. It then becomes a whole statement, just like any other and
takes it's place in the rows of facts in the mind where it is destined to
be forgotten or at least unused.
Other questions aren't so easily answered not because we don't know the
truth, but because we don't like it. These questions are usually silences
before they are spoken for they draw attention to the unpleasant and force
everyone to think about what they have forcibly pushed aside. There are
many words for asking these types of questions, none of which are
pleasant, but the truth is that every great leader, big and small, has had
the guts to ask them and challenge the world below.
But still more questions have no answers at all. These questions are
the ones that linger. With these questions, the challenge goes out, but is
never answered. Like spotlights, these questions highlight what we do not
know and often times what we will never know. They accent our limitations
as people and as human beings. Because when we realize we don't know the
answer or, worse yet, that there is no right answer, we realize what it
means to be mortal, to not know everything, to have limitations.
But despite all of this, we have to ask questions, we have to challenge
the world to think for it is the only way to grow. As a species, it is our
mind that sets us apart and if we do not constantly expand our knowledge
by challenging the envelope, then we are no greater than the countless
species we have the courage to call inferior.
So my challenge to you, my question for you dear reader is to question
everything. Ask the hard questions, ask the ones that people shy away
from, ask the ones people dare not think about or would never ponder
willingly. Because while expanding the envelope will always bring about a
little pain, anything worth doing, anything worth saying, will always hurt
someone. But that doesn't mean it would be best left unspoken…
-Raven
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