#6 this is the end ...or is it?

In taking classes sometimes I find myself reading assignments and wondering what is the point? Yet I begin usually about half way through them the underlying message in the lesson.  I have a questioning personality and it is hard for me to fallow blindly.  I am sure this comes from a period in time where when I was growing up I would ask my mother why, and the answer was always, "Because I said so." . This caused great curiosity in my mind.  Was this answer given because as a child I did not have the right to know the answer or was it because there really was not an answer to give?  A justifiable explanation of why I could not do something or even why I had to.  Could I spend the night at a friends? no.... why? Because I said so... I would wonder what was the reasoning for this abrupt decision?  If only the answer could have been; no because we have to go to your grandmothers early tomorrow, or no, because I do not know her parents, that would have been acceptable. I believe in my own mind that it was because the consensus was a child doesn't need to have an explanation from the parent.  My mother was raised in a strict Military family dynamic in the 50's where children are seen and not heard and as much as she swore that things would be different when she had kids most of the upbringing ended up being the same except now it was the 80's and it was me.  To bring back the point at the beginning and my need to question everything and always live by Murphy's law I realize that people always have a reason for their decisions and an understanding that most people in the power position know the best way to take you where they want you to end up.  It seems like it is not a matter of giving up your personal power but having enough faith to fallow.  So in ending this assignment I feel that this was a genuinely cathartic progress an one I will continue so thank you for the assignment and I understand why, because you said so... :)