The little word 'why' has been a very strong thing with me ever since I was a little girl and couldn't even speak very well. It is a well-known fact that little children ask questions about everything because they don't know much about everything. This was very much the case with me, but even when I grew older I couldn't wait to ask all kinds of questions, whether they could be answered or not. This is not so terrible in itself and I must say that my parents tried to answer every one of my questions very patiently, until.... I began even badgering strangers, and they generally don't like 'children's endless questions'. I must admit that this can make them feel angry, but I console myself with the idea that there is a saying that 'you must ask in order to know', which couldn't be completely true, otherwise I'd be a professor by now.
When I grew older, I realized that it is not possible to ask every kind of question to everyone and that there are many 'why's' that cannot be answered. I then understood from that that I tried to help myself by starting to think out these questions on my own. So I came to the important discovery that questions which one mustn't ask can be solved by oneself. Therefore, the little word 'why' taught me not only to ask but to think.