I had a conversation with a friend of mine last weekend about questions and potentiality. I am continually perplexed by people who seem to lack an inner drive for exploring, growing, improving, and becoming something more. I don't look down on these people - I really don't - but I'm confused by them. For as long as I've been alive, I've always felt that there was more to life, God, the world around me - and this has caused me to grow into the person I am today and the person I'll be tomorrow. People who lack these potential seem bored with life and stuck in their ways. That has to be a frustrating feeling.
So I've been asking the question: "Why?" Why do people settle? And is settling intellectually, habitually, and life-wise what we're called to do according to cultural and managerial mandates in Genesis?
One possible answer to this that my friend and I discussed pertains to questions. Some people just don't ask questions. Questions raise the ceiling of potentiality so that potential for discovery and advancement exists. However, without asking questions, I think it would be difficult to advance and grow in this respect. I've met a lot of people who seek an answer to something and once they have an answer that at least makes some sense - they stop. They stop questioning. They stop searching. They become stagnant. I don't want to become stagnant.
So I am proposing that those of us who ask questions - we ask them with regularity to the people around us. Lovingly. With the intention of discovering and exploring the wonders of this brilliant and perplexing world we live in. And with the hope that we receive two questions with every answer we find.
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