Why yes, Mr. Lowery.

"Why did you do this?". "Why yes". But...what kind of an answer is?? Children are just naive. Responses like that, when you grow up, lead you nowhere.

Or just about. Over the years we lose something. We look for explanations, reasons. In order to understand, prevent, act. But not everything can be explained. Some things happen only because they were possible and have materialized. Or - it’s the same – they have causes that we are not able to know (too many variables at stake). And then the right answer, the first answer to give, is the children’s one, that looks so stupid. "How could a thing so absurd happen?", "Why me?","Why now and not after?". Why yes. Then we can also take the trouble to investigate better, try to understand, but the "why yes" should be the starting point of any rational explanation, and, above all, of any attempt to get out without getting lost in minor or non-essential issues.
I remember an old episode of tv series "Twilight Zone" in which Mr. Bill Lowery one day wakes up and realizes that everyone around him speak a strange language. Failing to understand or communicate he is going to go crazy. Instead...

The episode closes with these words:

 “A question trembles in the silence: Why did this remarkable thing happen to this perfectly ordinary man? It may not matter why the world shifted so drastically for him. Existence is slippery at the best of times. What does matter is that Bill Lowery isn't ordinary. He's one of us. A man determined to prevail in the world that was, and the world that is, or the world that will be”.