There are no easy answers

to so many things.

The "whys" of life aren't easy to discern, in the normal course of events. I suppose some things just are the way they are and it isn't vital to know why. It would be much easier to know why, though. That way, with the knowing, would make it possible to fix things that aren't right. To repair things that continue to get worse.

Questions such as "what the hell is wrong with my icemaker?" really don't need an immediate answer. It's not making that big a difference in anyone's life.

Questions like, "Why do people die?" make some sense. Most of the time the only answer is just that people die. That's it. There are a myriad of reason why, but the brass tacks of that question are very simple: people, animals, plants, worlds, suns, galaxies, they all die at one time or another. The only difference here is a matter of acceptance as nobody in possession of their full faculties wants to live forever.

Questions such as "what is wrong with him and why does he keep doing the same hateful, hurtful, mean things?" demand an answer of some sort. The situation that precipitates that kind of question is of the sort that is directly, and negatively, affecting people's lives. What happens when there is no answer? When anything that might appear to be an answer is unmasked as merely an excuse? And the excuse has been made so many times that it's validity is wearing quite thin?

What happens, then, when a question that demands an answer finds none? I want to know. What road should be taken? What decisions need to be made? With damage spreading in ripples, far and wide, what in the world is one to do?

I don't know, and I must know.