Why asking Why?

Anya Leela
Know Why
Published in
2 min readJun 29, 2020

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Instead of How.

As we move through life, we absorb so many messages from the society, from our parents, from everyone we meet along the road, that we come to the point where we think we know what we want and we are going towards it, only later to reach the destination and to never feel fulfilled.

It is all just seems not enough.

The life becomes a constant struggle of trying to get somewhere, trying to become someone, trying to make it all count.

We are bombarded with life hacks and self-improvement books that present themselves as life manuals, that give you all the ‘hows’, but we never stop and ask “why?”.

Why do I want to be successful? What is my real true desire in life? What would my dream life look like?

We absorb ideas from the outside. We call ourselves ambitious, or not at all, based on our own behaviour. But if we don’t know the root of this behaviour, if we don’t understand how our mind works, it is the same as walking through the life blinded-folded.

To really see, to really understand life, we have to open our eyes. We have to get to know this person, this body, this mind that is taking us on this journey.

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Anya Leela
Know Why

Yoga Teacher. Background in Sociocultural Anthropology. Trying to find answers to an ultimate question “Why do we do things that we do?” | Know Why Publication