The Right Questions

Not all questions demand answers even though answers depend on questions as their means to life beyond the mental capacities from which they come. It is always significant as a dependent rational animal to ask questions...but only the right questions. The wrong questions lead down a road to nothingness. So let's not ask the questions until they be the right questions to ask, lest we risk falling into the abyss of the individual mind. What criterion can we use to assess the difference between right and wrong questions? How do we know that the question we have is the right question to ask? Criteria are not easy to come by or to sort out, but asking oneself whether or not their thesis, dissertation topic, paper, book topic, business discussion, whatever is asking a pertinent question is worth contemplating and sometimes re-thinking. Asking the right questions perhaps are what truly creative and eccentric minds do best while the rest of us slug on in what we consider to be normality (and what I consider to be conformity). In other words, perhaps it is easier to ask the right questions when normality itself is questioned, lending us the freedom to ask what before was perhaps out-of-bounds. For most of us this is near impossible...while true artists manage to use the tools of normality to ask what truly lies at its root, striving for something beyond just a clear-cut answer. For the artist, there is no search for answers, but rather the search for the right questions to ask concerning the many answers/results of living. In our busy lives we can get distracted by pop-questions of our culture and other paradigmatic manifestations of questions believing them to be the most right, the most advanced, concrete. I don't pretend to have the right questions in mind when writing this little blog entry, and I do not lightly judge the questions people spend their lives asking. What I am saying in this blog is a repeat of what I have said in the past: perhaps a good way of assessing the questions we are asking is to ask ourselves, "do these questions lead to answers that contribute to healthy relationships." Asking the right questions should always have a practical and moral responsibility as a prerequisite, otherwise a person is lost in academic (taking a word from Star Wars) "poo-doo."