Why and Why Bother?!

"Why" is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it.

The alphabet does not go "A B C D What? When? How?" but it goes "V W X Why? Z"

(The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams)

"Why?" is almost the most difficult question to answer. And yet, this is the question I've been asking repeatedly the last couple of days, if only in my head.

After a week of why-ing in my own head, I finally said it out loud, "Why?". Why do people do the things they do? Why are people cruel and unkind, but not know that they are being cruel and unkind? Why do I let people bother me? I just don't get it.

And then, I asked myself, why do I bother even?

There comes a point when one stops asking "Why?", and says instead, "Why bother?".