Is there a reason for everything that happens, I’m wondering. Sometimes things just happen, like it or not, and all you can do, is try to find the good in what has happened, and deal with it as best you can.
Whatever the answer is to the question, is there ever a better word, for the parent of an endlessly enquiring child, than “Because …” Because it just is, because I said so, because it’s the rule, the law, the govenment says so. Because.
(Mallala Mayor Mark Wasley, local government on Australia Day, small government in action)
And if we remember our own childhood, how frustrating , yet exciting to have to go and find your own answers to your demanding questions. To find things out, to know that the stars come out at night, for reasons that are known, and that we too, can further study more about such things, and take our questions to university, and learn so many of the answers to the questions in our mind.
Sometimes, the questions are not always properly answered, but ignored by pressured parents with a cheat’s answer of “just because” or “because I said so”. Is that ever going to be a satisfying answer? No, and the answer of because, may become the very thing the questioner needs, to prompt them to look into it htmselves.
The satisfying knowledge that because x, then y, is satisfying knowledge, with it being a way to build up further knowledge, having a lifetime ‘Becauses’ as you live and experience new things. Every new idea, or journey, or task, can bring answers to questions …
The answers, the ‘becauses’, give you a sense of having a handle on life – as in, my dog likes to chase creatures, because she is a sight hound, and sight hounds like to chase and catch things, it’s in their genes.
MY BECAUSE POEM
Because we live, we will die
Because we love, we may sigh
Because we grieve, we will cry
Because we think, we question why …
So, the prompt for today, is Because – think on it, and come up with your own creative writing response. I wrote the little 4 line rhyming poem above, as an example, but I expect you will produce something much better than my own little effort, and I hope I can do something else, that’s much better than that, too.
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 
This is another interesting prompt, Carolyn. I am enjoying having a daily prompt.
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I’m enjoying it immensely too – I put a draft of the next day’s prompt up there, so I can get it out as soon as I get properly going in the morning, once breakfast and coffee get my brain and body going!Im going to have to have a proper go at some of the prompts, where I did a brief piece, but it is nowhere near what I need for my poetry collection to come.
Later on today, or soon, it will happen! And I’m thrilled that the number of visits to my blog is still increased on what the numbers were prior to this writing prompt project … Thanks to you and others like you, Marie!
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I love your poem. Life can be defined in so many different ways. Your reflection makes me think about how it’s all an Endlessly Just Because… Because behind every cause, is a cause that caused the effect, that caused the next thing to happen, and etcetera. It’s not something that can even be navigated with an endless flow diagram, because there are so many causes-and-effects going on that it’s not possible to keep track of anything. I love the phrase, “Just Because,” which says, “Look, I have no freaking idea here, life is a total mystery, but here we are, whether or not we know why!”
I’ve found your one word prompts difficult to write-on, because I’ve never been able to write on the basis of one word prompts. And I don’t think this is something I can write about to any extent other than what I’ve written here. But at least you prompted me to write a comment today! Thank you. 🙂
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