"I buzzed noisily as a bumble bee
until the burden of knowledge weighed on me".
This happens to most of us. We do not know why we do certain things, yet we go about doing it. Then someday we wake up as though from a trance to the reality. Then we seem to understand why things happen the way they do.
As kids we started going to school, not knowing what school means. Then as we grow we start enjoying school (most of us!) and the day of farewell seems to be the most difficult day.
Though we feel that if the end of school would be so hard, we would have enjoyed school more, in reality we would have been the same. Many times we think that we would have done things differently, the truth is that we would have done it the same way, how many ever chances are given.
In my opinion this is so because, it is only after we go through the experience the intelligence is converted to wisdom. Once wisdom dawns on us we need not go through the same experience. This is when we start looking at the world differently.
Let me discuss a few common experiences to put things in perspective.
When we travel through a road or an area the first time everything looks new and we develop an image based on what catches our attention. The second time we go through the same place we start noticing newer things and the place now does not seem as it seemed the first time.
Similarly, we may look at a design without knowing what it is. When the artist explains what it is then how many ever times we look at the design, we can only see it through the artist's eye and we are unable to see the way we saw it the first time.
Once our mind understands a concept, the naivity is lost and wisdom creeps in.
One purpose of life, therefore could be in converting intelligence into wisdom. God gave intelligence to all of us and then makes us go through life's experiences, so that this intelligence may be converted to wisdom. As we age we tend to become wiser. Life becomes easy when we live through each day as an experience, so that we may become wiser and learn the art of viewing good and bad alike. We then have the maturity understand that happiness and sadness are just two different states of he same mind and that they come and go.
We are mere spectators to events happening around us and learning is nothing but the conversion of intelligence into wisdom!
until the burden of knowledge weighed on me".
This happens to most of us. We do not know why we do certain things, yet we go about doing it. Then someday we wake up as though from a trance to the reality. Then we seem to understand why things happen the way they do.
As kids we started going to school, not knowing what school means. Then as we grow we start enjoying school (most of us!) and the day of farewell seems to be the most difficult day.
Though we feel that if the end of school would be so hard, we would have enjoyed school more, in reality we would have been the same. Many times we think that we would have done things differently, the truth is that we would have done it the same way, how many ever chances are given.
In my opinion this is so because, it is only after we go through the experience the intelligence is converted to wisdom. Once wisdom dawns on us we need not go through the same experience. This is when we start looking at the world differently.
Let me discuss a few common experiences to put things in perspective.
When we travel through a road or an area the first time everything looks new and we develop an image based on what catches our attention. The second time we go through the same place we start noticing newer things and the place now does not seem as it seemed the first time.
Similarly, we may look at a design without knowing what it is. When the artist explains what it is then how many ever times we look at the design, we can only see it through the artist's eye and we are unable to see the way we saw it the first time.
Once our mind understands a concept, the naivity is lost and wisdom creeps in.
One purpose of life, therefore could be in converting intelligence into wisdom. God gave intelligence to all of us and then makes us go through life's experiences, so that this intelligence may be converted to wisdom. As we age we tend to become wiser. Life becomes easy when we live through each day as an experience, so that we may become wiser and learn the art of viewing good and bad alike. We then have the maturity understand that happiness and sadness are just two different states of he same mind and that they come and go.
We are mere spectators to events happening around us and learning is nothing but the conversion of intelligence into wisdom!
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