7 Applications of the Word “Why”

1.  Appears in the hit song "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys as the boy band serenades you with mournful eyes and 1990s haircuts.

2. "Why?" chirps the five-year-old child for the umpteenth time and you have to restrain yourself from bashing your head against a brick wall because you can't take any more questions. 

3. Reoccurs in conversations where the protagonist screams a heart-wrenching "WHY?!"  at their best friend who's betrayed them to go to the dark side.

4.  Spoken on a regular basis by angsty teen philosophers, brow furrowing as they ask themselves rhetorical questions and engage in existential crises (See also: Hamlet)

5. "Remember to ask yourself 'Who? What? Where? When? Why?'" instructs the fourth-grade teacher and the class of elementary-schoolers heaves yet another groan.

6.  The one question you ask yourself, your voice of reason attempting to stop you before you do something like ridiculous and irrational like...

7. ....wasting two minutes of your life reading this list. Now why on Earth did you do that?