What d'ya know?

I often think how impossible someone living in the Victorian era would have considered space flight when even planes weren't invented, but I think then how if I go further and accept only things of which I have seen or experienced up to today then I too would doubt space travel having a) never been to space b) never met someone who has been to space and c) never really understood why having been there ages ago we don't keep going back?? Things can be real without my having experienced it and things can turn out for good without me understanding them at the time or even after the time. My point is a lack of knowledge and understanding needn't be something to fear but something to embrace. The unknown is bigger than me and since I generally feel so limited I would rather wisdom and knowledge didn't have to dumb down for me but stayed safely out of my grasp!

 Socrates (via Plato) said "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" It seems like a good place to start but when people say 'things always turn out for best' it can sometimes seems a more comforting prospect than not knowing or celebrating the not knowing. Personally knowing i know nothing is a comfort, it takes the pressure off having to work everything out, of needing to understand everything and having to appear together. I can BE together and confident in accepting a lack of knowledge and control by dealing with each day as it comes on a day to day basis. If you make the correct decisions in the moment then the longer term ones will be steered more effectively to where you want to go - If I chose to spend time with my family, to pick up my son when he cries the long term effect is a good relationship with my family and a son with a sense of security. If I analyse, over plan and think through what i should do I miss the moment and long term do harm rather than good. 


Having a goal / aim in life is important but making the right decisions as you go is a far more effective way of achieving those goals than stressing each day that you are missing out or missing your calling. It's a cliche to say no one knows what the future brings but its not actually true, some things can't be predicted or happen when you didn't want them to and some things wont happen without a long term strategy and determined approach but with things that are important you make them happen over time by making the right decisions at the time not wallowing in pity from the last poor decision you made or looking so far forward you don't see what is happening today and enjoy it. On that note I should probably stop blogging and play with Noah!! Bye for now...