Tuesday, August 28, 2012

What's Your Biggest Question?


Last Friday, we set up a giant question mark painted on a piece of plywood on campus on Lowry Mall, a high-traffic area of campus. We call it a Spark! event, with the purpose being to spark conversations with students. For 6 hours we asked students : What is your biggest question? Here were their responses.


Where will I live?  Will I be remembered?  How does forever work?
Why does money have to be so important? Will I make it on my own?
How do I live my life to honor God? Why do I feel so awkward all the time?
Is there any such thing as a person on this earth that serves no purpose?
Why do babies have to die? Will I ever truly be happy?
Am I taking the right path? What's the point of life?
Will I get married? Will we ever have a non-corrupt government? Why do I exist?
How can I make a difference? Why do you follow God? 
Why do people settle for less than they deserve?
What am I going to do with my entire life? Can I do more? Was it all worth it?
What aren't they telling us? What's God's plan for me? How do I do something significant?
Why can't I get a date? Am I ever going to find someone?  
How can we truly, effectively help the poor?
Is there a God? Who am I? What happens after I die? What is knowledge?
Why haven't I gotten my acceptance letter to Hogwarts? What is the meaning of life?
Will I ever find love, or was I meant to walk this world alone?
What is the purpose of our existence?
How can people be so hateful to people they don't even know, just because they are black, gay, etc?
Why do we love love when love seems to hate us? Why does higher education have to cost so much in America?
Is there a life after death? What do you need to be happy? What's God purpose for me?
What should I do after college? Am I on the right path?
Is it possible for a human being to completely forgive someone who has done you wrong?
What is really out there? What is the right question?
Why is grace such a hard thing to grasp and apply? 
What do I have to do to be happy forever?
Will I be successful in my career? Why is the world unfair? 
Is there a purpose to suffering?
Why can't we do more for our planet? What really happened at the end of LOST?
Who runs the world? What were we made for? 
How can someone own land?
Why are people so scared of what they don't know? 
Is the end really the end? Why is Kim Kardashian famous? What if I never existed?
What was God's reason behind creating man, heaven, earth?
How did we get here? Why was I cursed with OCD?
What happens after the end? What happened before the beginning?
How do you make peace with being put up for adoption?
Why does no one give a s*** about our environment?
What's my purpose in life? Why do people insist on judging others?
Will I ever forgive myself? 
Will true equality for women ever be achieved?
Why do some people easily believe in God but for some people it's so hard?
Why do some people choose a life of ignorance?
How do you choose what has meaning and what does not?

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