One Apple A Day #399
I don’t know.
How often do you say it? How often do you admit that you don’t know?
It is such a powerful sentence, yet it is so hard to let it out.
There was a time when I wasn’t able to say it at all.
It was a kind of personal commitment to always know more than the people around me. It was so important to me that I had even convinced myself it was true most of the time.
I thought I knew it all.
But I was just delusional.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. —JOSH BILLINGS
Because I thought I knew, I was blind to what was happening inside and outside me.
I wasn’t changing. I wasn’t growing.
Until life slapped me in the face and woke me up.
It was painful.
It was unexpected, so even more painful.
But it made me realise that I didn’t know.
Observe yourself while you go through your day.
If you don’t say “I don’t know” at least once, I may be time for some reflections.
It may be a sign that you’re not challenging yourself enough.
That you’re not changing.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. —FRANK HERBERT