Question is a noun and a verb. A
question is asked expecting an answer from the other end. It may be oral,
written or through a medium of signs or otherwise. We cannot imagine human
interaction, without questions and answers, in some form, in life or profession.
Sometimes silence may be a sign of question or answer. We ask thousands of
questions in our lifetime in various contexts and situations to get what we
want or give others what they need. We ask quite ordinary questions expecting
similar answers from others in much part of our lives or professions. That’s
why we are remaining as ordinary creatures forever. There are many intriguing,
inspiring and influential questions which we should ask ourselves or others
occasionally at least to grow psychologically. I present you some characters
and the questions they should ask themselves or others often. You may be one of
those characters.
1. Individual
a.
What is the purpose of my life?
b.
Who is creating and ending this life, and why?
c.
What is the importance of knowledge and skills in human life?
d.
How should I play my role extraordinarily to make my life fruitful and sublime?
2. Employee
a.
Have I the knowledge, skills, standards and values to expect, deserve and do a
great job in a place?
b.
Am I updating myself regularly to meet the emerging demands of the job or just
remaining complacent?
c.
Am I depending on my employer helplessly or is it that he/she cannot find a
great employee like me if I quit?
d.
Am I working here for salary, increments and promotions alone or to contribute
to the happiness of humanity?
3. Student
a.
Am I going to this school, college or university for spending time happily or
to learn something great?
b.
Are marks, grades and certificates important for me here or am I struggling to
grow as an intellectual?
c.
Is institutional learning meant for finding a reliable source of livelihood or
for psychological refinement?
d.
Am I studying here to improve myself or bring a dramatic positive change in the
lives of people around me?
4. Spiritualist
a.
Where is God and what should I do to reach Him?
b.
Am I attaining spiritual powers steadily depending on my practice or sitting
here to impress others artificially?
c.
Why should I shun material life and struggle to see God, leaving all these
temptations and attractions around?
d.
What is the nature and power of a human body, soul and God and who can guide me
greatly on this path?
5. Teacher
a.
Have I acquired the required knowledge and skills to be a great teacher to all
my students?
b.
Am I working here for livelihood and comfort or to prepare thinkers for coming
generations?
c.
Am I updating my subject knowledge regularly or teaching something for
formality sake only?
d.
What are my standards and values as a teacher and is anybody learning something
from my life?
6. Entrepreneur
a.
Am I starting this business to earn money hugely or serve the humanity at
large?
b.
What is the positive difference my products or services are making in the lives
of others?
c.
Am I learning principles and ideals from my competitors or treating them as my
enemies only?
d.
Why should anybody work for my company, leaving all other employers in this
domain of business?
7. Doctor
a.
Did I choose this course of studies to impress my parents and society or serve
all efficiently and kindly?
b.
As a doctor, am I worrying about money I am earning or the quality of service I
am offering to my patients?
c.
Are patients treating me like a commercial and artificial bloke or one with
great healing and consoling powers?
d.
How can I alleviate physical and psychological pains in my patients within a
short time with limited resources?
8. Lawyer
a.
Did I study law to save the good from the bad or to present a criminal as an
innocent one somehow?
b.
Am I learning and arguing my cases based on those laws only or depending on my
active conscience often?
c.
What is the image of a lawyer or judge in the contemporary society and why did
it happen till now?
d.
Am I cheating my clients regularly arguing useless cases or guiding them
towards right path honestly?
9. Devotee
a.
If God is omnipresent and omnipotent, why should I struggle to promote Him in
every place or occasion?
b.
Am I going to a temple, mosque or church to tell lies addressing God or to beg
Him to guide me in the right path?
c.
Does God like my following formalities in life or understanding and serving the
helpless kindly and ideally?
d.
Am I appearing religious or spiritual to attract others or to represent my true
character in this position and dress?
10. Scientist
a.
Is science a part of God and religion or that religion and God can be created
through scientific methods?
b.
Was this universe created from nothing or from something and who created that
something initially?
c.
Can science explain everything in this universe based on cause and effect
theory?
d.
Can science add comfort only to humanity or transform them from beasts to
humanists, idealists and thinkers?
11. Politician
a.
Have I become a politician to serve the poor and the helpless or to cheat them
exploiting the anarchy here?
b.
Does politics mean tricks and gimmicks or establishing and following standards
and values for welfare of all?
c.
Are people appreciating me because I am a powerful politician or because I did
something great for them?
d.
If people are equal to God, why am I appearing and living as a greater one than
them, publicly or privately?
12. Artist
a.
Am I living and working to satisfy the artist in me or changing myself
continuously to earn faster?
b.
Is my art guiding the people in the right path or bringing them into a wrong
path artificially?
c.
Does anybody suffer or die in this world if I shun this art field completely
and live doing something else?
d.
Am I continuing in this art path for my comforts and benefits or to help the
humanity magnanimously?
13. Police
a.
Are victims and people treating us like unscrupulous blokes or custodians of
law and order?
b.
What wonders are we doing to bring peace and order into the lives of people in
our jurisdiction?
c.
Are we treating all kinds of people and victims alike or rich and influential
ones differently?
d.
Are we struggling to uphold the rights and opportunities of the people or
torturing them regularly?
14. Regulatory authorities
a.
Are we ensuring whether everything is perfect in our domain or just passing
time enjoying our sinecures?
b.
Did we get into this profession for good reputation and earning opportunity or
to discipline systems and people?
c.
Are we servants of people? If yes, are we thinking and working honestly to
solve their problems regularly?
d.
Are we following the established norms 100% always or violating them often as
there is nobody to question?
15. Businessman
a.
Is business a source of profits for me or a way of understanding and meeting
the demands of humanity at large?
b.
Am I doing what is profitable for me always or something good for anybody that
buys what I offer?
c.
Am I educating my customers speaking truths frankly or cheating them nicely
telling them beautiful lies?
d.
Am I doing this business transparently and legally completely, or concealing
many bitter realities smartly?
16. Lover
a.
Am I in love with her because she is physically attractive or is it because I
love her character mostly?
b.
Do I have the same kind of love, affection, care and respect for her rest of
the life or is it just a desire?
c.
Am I telling her lies to impress her and acting smart to make her believe that
I am more than what I am really?
d.
Is it an accident that I loved her or is it that I am making this choice
deliberately after careful thoughts about it?
17. Husband
a.
Am I treating my wife like a great guest in my life whom I should always treat
with sensitivity and empathy?
b.
Has she completely changed to suit my desires and preferences and is she
thinking and behaving like my servant?
c.
Am I struggling regularly to compromise and sacrifice many things in my life to
be her ideal husband?
d.
Is this relationship a formality for me or am I building and depending on it
with wholehearted devotion?
18. Wife
a.
Am I impressing him with my bodily features and attractions only or with highly
appreciable thoughts also?
b.
Am I happy with him because he is offering me a safe and secure life or is he
more than that in many respects?
c.
Am I controlling my desires and fantasies according to his abilities and
realities or crossing those limits often?
d.
What am I doing regularly, often or rarely at least to make him realize that he
is very vital in my life?
19. Friend
a.
Why should my familiar folks treat me as an extraordinary friend in many
respects?
b.
Am I maintaining my circle of friends because they came my way or have I chosen
them because they are great?
c.
Are we friends thinking and acting differently from others to bring a great
change in the lives of others?
d.
How many of us are willing to do something great for the sake of others in our
circle, when they are suffering?
20. Celebrity
a.
Are many admiring and following me because I am doing something great for many
on my own or is it madness?
b.
Am I struggling to gain and retain this status of celebrity or has it all
happened naturally over the years?
c.
What is my personal contribution to bring comfort, benefit or happiness into
the lives of others in this world?
d.
Are others acting before me to make me believe that they love and admire me or
is it just acting by all?
21. Professional
a.
Is this profession really needed in this world? If yes, why should anybody
enter and continue this profession?
b.
Did I choose this profession because it gives me money, comfort and status or
because I deserve it 100%?
c.
Am I doing many artificial and immoral things to promote myself in this
profession or am I genius?
d.
Am I this professional because I have a lot of related knowledge and skills or
am I just acting this role well?
22. Journalist
a.
What is the positive change I am bringing in the lives of people through my
intellectual and creative contribution?
b.
Am I asking others such questions which are relevant and needed or just those
which they can answer easily?
c.
Am I following those standards and values which I am advocating and propagating
through my contributions?
d.
Am I learning and improving myself continuously to comment on contemporary
issues authoritatively?
Kids
question a lot when they are at school. Enthusiasm, passion for knowledge and
skills, circumstances often guide us towards questioning what is given and
encourage us towards doing something great for ourselves or others. Questioning
implies dynamism, critical analysis of given things, planning for future,
perfect assessment of the current situation and a strong desire to elicit the
best inputs from others to achieve something great collectively.
If
you are not questioning yourself, anybody or anything around you, it means you
are suffering with one or many disorders and demerits. If you stop questioning,
you stop changing. Assess yourself in the following way.
1. You believe that you are unable to change yourself, anybody
or anything around you, despite your best efforts. You are accepting that you
are a buffoon, idiot, rogue, scoundrel and criminal. If you are unable to contribute
anything to your life or others, in your lifetime, yours is a useless position
in this world. Shame on you.
2. You are so lazy and complacent that you expect others to do
something great for you and others. Change requires questioning the given things.
You should know what is wrong now and what is right to be done there to make it
into a better atmosphere, culture, situation or condition.If you are not
innovative and creative, you cannot question well.
3. Whatever change and advancement we are observing now in our
lives, societies, companies, countries and other places across the world, is
all due to the questioning attitude of those inventors, scientists, pioneers,
freedom fighters, philanthropists, social reformers, mentors, visionaries,
martyrs and others. Questioning greatly is a virtue.
4. Questioning attitude and orientation of life often pushes
one towards thinking better and acting differently to bring a marvelous change
in all constructively. They don’t remain satisfied with the existing development
and contemporary scenario around them. They want more. They think more. They
struggle more. They achieve more.
5. To take the best decision in a context, to benefit yourself
or others substantially, you should ask a series of interrelated and logical
questions one after the other until you arrive at the best choice of all
available. Questions direct you towards analytical thinking, logical planning,
constructive efforts and ideal pursuits in the long run.
6. Some questions may be very long but answers would be short.
Some questions may be very short but they expect us to answer comprehensively,
extending it to many answer sheets or discussion on it for hours together. What
is life? One may need to write one’s autobiography in 500 pages to answer this
short question.
7. Asking questions is easy but answering them is difficult,
very difficult or impossible. Can you answer these questions? Where is God?
When do you die? How do you live? Are your parents good? How much money do you
want to live happily forever? Do you love your wife or your mother the most?
Can you awake a dead man?
8.
Questions often irritate, insult, inspire, scare or console you. Do you have
discipline at all? Don’t you know this much also being chairman of such a big
company? Can’t you think innovatively and act bravely to achieve something
great? What do you do if we fire you right now? Don’t you know that everybody
is suffering around you?
9.
Questions chase us silently in our life or profession. We may not be able to
answer them but we feel their pressure almost every day and night. Am I living
up to the expectations of my wife, parents, children, society and nation? Am I
helplessly depending on this employer or is he relying on my supreme knowledge
and skills? Who am I?
10.
To know about others, mostly we depend on questions. We cannot imagine a formal
interview or interaction between unfamiliar ones, without questions. Questions
demand answers. Answers satisfy our ignorance, innocence, curiosity or ego.
Questioning softly and impartially elicits better and constructive answers in
many contexts.
11.
We rely on questions for evaluation of standards and values of others. We
conduct many tests and examinations to assess the status and talent of
different kinds of learners and students at many stages of their lives and
professions. Question means expectation and authority. One answering it mostly accepts
and follows the other submissively.
12.
We can use questions to improve our knowledge and skills continuously. Ask,
when in doubt about something or somebody, the right one. Don’t ask silly
questions to pass your time. One that questions intelligently keeps a boss, a
society, a race or a religion active and ideal. If you don’t question, fools
rule you and idiots make fun of you.
Questioning
for formality sake keeps you outdated. Questioning out of burning curiosity to
change yourself or others makes you and others dynamic and visionary.
Questioning to know the unknown and continuous internal struggle to define,
describe and reorient yourself towards brighter paths of personal and spiritual
growth makes you into a wizard of wonders and achievements. What you question
and how you answer others shows what you are really. Question often for
self-analysis, self-criticism and self-reformation. If you fear questions, you
block your growth.