There is only one question in this life, why? Why? is the question and why? is the answer.

"It strikes me we get lost so soon after birth"

Lamb, Small.

Kids know this and ask it relentlessly, adults have forgotten how to ask why?

They must keep at it, they must continue for their whole lifes to ask why? Why tells us retrospectively the things that have happened and their meanings, without finding this meaning we are lost.