WHY?????

If I were to ask you, ” how many words are contained in Webster’s New World Dictionary ” ( yes young readers there are still dictionaries in today’s high tech. world ) what would you guess? Hmmmmm!–times up. Well, the answer is—not even Siri knows. The best scientific guess exceeds 1,250,000 words. Many words contain fourteen or more letters like congregational and ophthalmologist, but to me the most powerful word today contains three letters, WHY ?

Needless to say every parent hangs to baby’s first word, will it be mommy or daddy ? As the child grows so does it’s curiosity. Beware everyone because the day will come when the word ” WHY” becomes a major part of their vocabulary.

Allow me to name a few from yesteryear when we had to deal with that three letter word. ” WHY can’t I have more candy, WHY can’t I stay out later, WHY can’t I drive the car, WHY can’t I wear this outfit, WHY can’t I get a tattoo, I’m fourteen, and the worst of WHY’s, give me your cell phone? As chicken little would say, ” the sky is falling”.

With social media giving us a blow by blow of the world every thirty seconds, do you find yourself mumbling the three letter word “WHY”? ( and please spare this old guy regarding social media, OMG–TMI).

Good things happen to bad people, and bad things happen to good people. Being in my very late seventies I thought the “WHY”s in my life would become fewer and fewer, wrong. Young or old, the ” WHY’s” will never go away. How can one little three letter word create such a tidal wave of adversity in our lives? From the song of the same name,” I Did It My Way”, I try to deal with the “WHY’s” replacing it with a positive. My positive, ” God has a plan, and is still in control”.

Be safe.