Today I Asked A Question

In class, we dove into the topic of questions and answers. Some might say, there is always an answer for every question, I respectfully think that is not fully correct. There may be an answer for a question, but is it always the correct one? In Orbiting the Giant Hairball, a book by Gordon MacKenzie, he describes how he had asked first graders who of them was an artist, without a fail, all of them eagerly raised their hands to show that they were artists. However, once he asked second graders almost all of them raised their hands, the higher in grade level he asked, the less hands went flying up in the air and the more reluctance and insecurity was being presented in children- this went to show that no answer is always certain. This led me to uncover a question that had been in my mind for so long... why do we always have to please others? As in, why can't we do something nice for ourselves or treat ourselves without having to do it to prove something to someone? The further I dive into it the more questions are formed, is the thought of society labeling us as 'selfish' stopping us from doing this?