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We want to know. Everything we do is about knowing more. Knowing what the things we’ve seen on pictures really look like, how it feels to get soaked in the rain, if making the best joke at the party makes us feel amazing, what’ll be left of us when nobody laughs. We eat and know what it’s like to be satisfied. We stop eating to discover that we can’t stop thinking about food when we can’t have any. We make friends and know about being safe. We look for the boundaries of friendship and learn how to loose a friend. We jog, bike, climb mountains and know what it feels like to be in control of our bodies. We get ill and know we’re not. We help people, text people, tell them they’re amazing and know what it’s like to be needed. We pay incredibly high prices to know everything. And knowledge can bring us two things: Power. And wisdom is to seek for truth. And power is to know how to cover up the truth.
We cheat, lie, ignore and hurt the same people. And know what it’s like to need them.
And wisdom.
And once we’ve paid with all we have and made others pay for us with what they have… And once we’re in dept so deep we feel like Alice falling, falling, falling on her way to wonderland, without ever actually landing, we’ll become truly wise. And we’ll know we don’t know. And we’ll know truth is to be found somewhere outside ourselves, outside our own perception. And outside our own ability to love, to despise. And truth is bigger than us. Bigger than what we know. Or what we mess up. Wisdom is to know what it’s like when truth has exceeded our power.
