“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

-Socrates

In fool view…

My mission is based on the fundamental understanding that what I know accounts for extraordinarily little in relation to all available knowledge. I look at the world through the eyes of ignorance, bringing only the experience of my life and a limited exposure of history and philosophy as the lens through which I attempt to understand the world around me. I would like to know more, so I can understand better.

While I know this is a fool’s errand, I believe it is a task worth undertaking. I could simply traverse through my own existence in linear fashion, absorbing only the information that is presented to me, but I believe there is value in the search for information, the quest for knowledge.

I acknowledge my own ignorance, and in brief moments of self-reflection I realize that I project that ignorance onto the world – so, I take a breath here, ready to make the climb into worlds that I do not know, so that I may attempt to understand them.

Forgive my stubbornness and apprehension to ascend from this cave of my own understanding, or lack thereof. The light is blinding, and the air is cold. It will take time for my vision to adjust, and my flesh to settle.