by Irrira Rikki

Created on: April 22, 2009

MINUSCULE CHOICE

What would you like to know? Can I tell you... why not? We all would like to know the answers to everything, but when questions arise which call for a more calculated reply, our 'why... not' can be absolutely plausible. It could pertain even to the biggest decision one has ever had to make up one's mind on, and we could in the face of it's complexity, simply answer, 'why not'? But the question here calls for more, and that is a reasonable answer as to why, really is 'why...not'?

A good example though very compound, would be when one if faced with a life or death decision? Imagine it was ourself needing a response which will at least put our mind more at ease - even if temporally - we have inquired via our closest confidant. Maybe we are faced with a traumatic decision due to an accident; the result is being a bad spinal injury. We have the choice of never walking again, or risk the operation which could leave us 100% bedridden, a quadriplegic, or cause enough damage to create even death in the operating theater. The spinal chord and the brain are too connected.

Either way, the choice is a fine line within a realty; so precise, that for the sake of a better hope, we ask, why not? Why not take the chance, because with or without it, there isn't much left to choose? If my confidant could only answer with this seemingly no-way-out choice to save my life, and I was able to to ask, 'could you tell me?', I too would have to agree with the only decision left to come to. 'Why...not?'

Why... not, might just be a simple decision between teens, or anyone going to the movies because they are bored. That's just an answer in the blase attitude of solving the moment. But if it was a heavier question of a couple who have to come to the decision of giving up their larger, more comfortable home for down-sizing due to the economic purse which is theirs, it may take a while to come to terms with the issue. They may haggle with the 'can you tell me' why we really can't get through this and should move?' for weeks; weighing the pros and cons until one simply suggests in the face of things it makes sense, so...'why not?'

'Why...not'? Might seem like an escape to a more defined answer, and as with the world-weary teens, even an unconcerned manner in which it is delivered, without any thought to 'Can you tell me first, why...not?' But calling for a justification to this question's lead, is asking for more discernment. What are the reasons which bring about such a seemingly casual mannerism in response? The root of it appears to lie in the fact that which ever way the question's 'Can you tell me?' result is, that there is minuscule to zero choice in conclusion.

So 'can you tell me, due to me not feeling well enough to keep writing right now, the only closure I can come to, is to stop? As I have no choice but to, with respect... your agreement as 'why... not?' already tells me you understand. Thank you.

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