Friday, July 12, 2013

The difference between WHY and HOW

Hi,
I created this blog because I was inspired by justlittlethings.net to make a nice kinda inspirational blog that is kind of about my life. Except not. So all my life, I have been bothered by the difference between why and how. To me HOOW means that like the science-ish stuff behind something, yet WHHYY is the reasonnn in the worldddd. Most people don't understand this way of thinking, but I do. I think differently than most people I think. It's a little hard to explain but once you get it, life will be....better. Science won't kill you. 
For example: there is a difference between How is the pizza hot and why  is the pizza hot. The how version's answer in my mind would be because it was in the microwave or something like that.  While the why version's answer would be because I don't like cold pizza.  Get it? That one was a bit complicated. Try this one, it's easier to see the difference. 
how am I here on earth 
why am I here on earth
see the difference?

Now this way of thinking kinda makes things harder for me in the long-run. Like at school. Tons of homework, essay, and test questions include the words why or how. In that case I just have to interpret how my teacher would think. And as you can see, this gets difficult. I had this one teacher whose brain thought completely differently than mine and I struggled with her tests. Luckily, I was eventually able to figure out how she thinks and how she wants the questions answered and how she interprets the questions, so I got an A in the class. Which is expected out of me. 

So all in all, why is my favorite question. It makes me think, why am I here? Why do the leaves change? Now how do the leaves change..it's why. What is the reason for the leaves to change colors.  IT's all different. You can try to get all this and understand, I just want to share how I think. The why's are important, because everything happens for a reason, no matter how strange the reason is. 

1 comment:

  1. This is so... legit. I never really looked at it this way, even though I guess how and why are totally different questions. Please post more.

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