One Apple A Day #675 - before we know
Can you remember when you were a child, and everything was a discovery? You knew nothing, so you had to be creative and figure out everything on your own.
Before we know.
I woke up with these three words in my mind.
Sometimes I have the feeling that knowledge is narrowing my possibilities. Because I know how to do something, I'm not challenged to search for other ways. Maybe there are no different ways, but I'll never know because I'll automatically go with what I know.
"Reality is out there."
I remember reading this quote in an article about native americans. Still, I may be wrong, and it's just a false memory.
Anyway, to me, this simple sentence always spoke about wonder and innocence. I am aware that we see the world not as it is, but as we are. We always filter reality through the lens of our beliefs, so the reality as we experience it is, at least in part, an internal construction based on our knowledge.
When we don't know, we can't make assumptions, and we experience reality for what it is. Like when we travel to new places, or we meet new people.