Particularly if you have kids. I look at Loki with his beautiful toddler innocence and enthusiasm for everything and wonder to myself 'why the hell am I doing this, when that gorgeous little mite is going to turn into a sex-obsessed, drunken layabout like my teenagers, and then a fat, old cancerous, heart failing, arthritic slob like me?'
And what am I doing? Hours and hours during the day of waiting around - to get Loki to goto bed, to make his food, to bathe him, to pander to his every whim, to travel to miniature bleeding villages with tiny trains, to do this, to do that. It's an endurance test.
Truth is, I don't actually do many of those things. Iulia does a lot of them, as does the Nanny. But even the thought of other people doing those things makes me weary.
It's rare that I'll put a Yoko Ono song on and go 'wow, I'm really glad I listened to that'. But the early seventies ditty of her wailing over and over again atonally the word 'why?' is actually quite a calming tune to have in the background during moments of stress. It sums up the mood rather well.
When you're next frustrated by some minor inconvenience, like getting a parking ticket unfairly, or being stuck in a queue on a call to a helpline, or any other bureaucratic bitch of a roadblock, shove on Yoko Ono's tune and I guarantee it will make you smile.
i think the real reason Yoko Ono wrote 'Why' was she must have been in the company of a toddler and been hit with incessant 'why's all day long to which the only answer after a while is her song in response.