The sun sets on another day…
The sunset was beautiful and I felt great about everything cascading into the eve. As the sky drifted into dark reds, I enjoyed twilight and the world shifted from hustle and bustle to quiet grace. What a difference the daytime makes.
I know it may sound strange but the world is full of things that you know and lots of things you don’t know. Lately I have been facing a variety of issues as I learn and adapt, and along the way I have found my way to even more.
I have said it many times here but I have to reiterate again that the one thing that I know is that I don’t know. Of course I could sit around and be a pompous jerk and talk about all the things I do know. I could rattle on about things that many people would fail to understand. But I don’t want to do that. I want, I need, to continuously find a way. That way is learning more and understanding that I know even less.
I recently watched a special on Star Trek and how the stories evolved in many cases. For Star Trek the Motion Picture there wasn’t necessarily a perfect plan until very close to the end. For those of us that watched it it seemed complete but the studio and everyone around it did not know until far too to release date. What they created was something that people should listen to or at least consider. A machine became sentient and virtually all knowing, and in the process knew there was more but didn’t know how to get there. It was our imperfections that allowed for greater thought, illogical constructs that are often true, dimensions that are thought not to exist but can, and far more. The moral of the story is that sometimes there is more to know and to learn but we have to acknowledge that we need to embrace it.
As I look at the world today I see people who want to know and learn and discuss. I also see many people who think they know and are so sure of themselves that they can’t see beyond what they think they know. I don’t need to go into any specifics, you can fill in the blanks from a million different areas. I know, in the area that I have been involved in, that my work changes nearly daily. New challenges, new theories, new everything. There is no scientific fact except that the scientific fact needs to be challenged and rewritten almost constantly and what we can do is only measured by what we know in this instant, tomorrow it may well be obsolete.
Grab on to more, take a few moments to find more and be more but realize every day that there is more to learn.
So as the sun sets on another day, I hope you know that I know that I don’t know and that you know that knowing knowledge means not knowing an end to that knowledge. Now say that three times real fast, and enjoy your evening, no matter what.
Sleep sweet, love life, and learn…