How does this work?

We wander through life blissfully unaware of how things actually work.

The bodies we inhabit, the minds we live in, the people we live with.

The mundane things around us, the background to our days.

We rarely stop and question how things work, because we don’t need to.

Until of course they don’t work, when we find we might need to, at least for a short time.

This is not laziness, or a lack of curiosity, it’s just how our system is built, it’s efficiency in a very complex world.

But behind that efficiency lies a challenge.

Because it is only by looking at things can we really see them, really appreciate them.

And it is only by looking at things differently that we are able to see the change that is happening, and the change that needs to be made.

For that it's helpful to ask a different question:

Why does this work?

To ask this, is to look under the bonnet, to see the engine.

To find the root of things, to see what is really going on.

Which then allows us to ask the golden questions:

Is there another way? Is there a better way?

There lies the interesting, there lies the different, there lies what’s next.