What’s 2+2, really?

This felt like a simple question, until I started getting different answers.

A modular expert flamboyantly declared the answer as both 0 and 1.

A class of kindergarten kids chorused ‘4’ as an answer.

The post-doc who once used binary numbers system convinced me the answer is written as 100.

In a way, they were all right. In a way, they were wrong. Or better, there was no right or wrong.

They all gave us a piece of what they understood based on where they were standing, and all they could see.

When a simple question leads to multiple answers, maybe the question and the paths become more valuable than hugging one singular answer.