Simply Why?

The other day I was speaking to one of the men I consider wisest in this time and generation and we came to ask ourselves the question, why. Not that we wanted to get the answer but we were left to answer that for the multitudes that remain largely uneducated as to why they do what they do.
At the center of every activity is the answer to the question why. The answer to this question goes a long way in helping many of us realize both our positions and destinations. The student that has not answered this question is the one who does fail in many of there endeavors. There are many purposes that have gone to waste because the people that undertook them were not with the answer to the question why. There are many purposes still that have been abused because those to whom they were entrusted were not with the slightest clue as to why they were left custodians.

So we sit here in the valley of question and pause as though we are without direction. We sit to examine our intents in relation to the purposes we proclaim to be in service of. The world today is in search for the deeper or should we say, inner thing. There are many practices designed to help people reach deeper inside them, to help them understand why they are here on earth. Trust me, this question is one we ask ourselves whether we are aware of it or not. This is with in our very fabrics. So we begin to realize that the answer to this question is just as important as the need to ask this question.

I see people getting married after answering this question but not all of them try to find the right answers to this question. In fact not many of them can tell the difference between the right and wrong answers. There are businesspeople racking their brains to make billions of dollars and yet they too have not conclusively answered this question in the right way.

We as humans are very rational beings, we, apart from those that have abandoned the responsibility to remain human. Timothy Ahumuza once told me that it is the people that know why that will keep getting rich. He was right but not complete. Today I know that it is people that have rightly answered that question that will indeed be richer. Every single one of us is responsible for themselves. Our personal lives are our primary responsibilities. But when we realize that our lives do not exist in isolation we realize that the responsibility we take for our lives is extended to those lives around us. We are all connected in a way that while we are to blame no one for our plight, we are to blame ourselves for the plight of those around us. But as we take on such massive responsibility, we need to pause and ask ourselves why we are doing this. This will not help us determine how much we are responsible; it will also help us realize how to take on such responsibility.

The pedestrian that drops a coin to a street child does well, but not in the long term. This is why. Firstly, this is one way of keeping these children on the streets. If we keep showing them that the streets are a better option than Kefa Sempangi’s homes or Watoto Childcare Ministries, or the Kateyamba In Nalukolongo, or Besania Children’ s home, we are worse than the parents that cast them out of their homes or the diseases that orphaned them. To insist on keeping these precious children on the streets is to continues abusing their rights as humans, to continue sowing that victim mindset in them. We have a lot of ways of healing that guilt that hits us so badly. Support the organizations that have come out to help these children. Give of your money to them, volunteer with them once in a while, pray for them. That is how we decently get children off the streets, not by pilling them on trucks and locking them away, and definitely not by giving them money to heal the guilt of our consciences.

That is just one illustration; marriage is part of this, education, business, employment. If I wrote individually about each one we would run out of space and time.

But how do we get to rightly answer the question why? The answer is in answering to ourselves, what kind of light we are using to look at things. The woman who has been a prostitute will look at married men from a certain light. But just because it is her light does not mean that it is the light. There ought to be a standard that helps us measure right and how far right is. There ought to be that measure that does not change depending on how we feel or are treated.

My suggestion is that in determining this, we go back to the one who made all things. That’s right and if you want to know why, its because He is most right.