Saturday, November 3, 2012

Awareness


Awareness
by L Williams

If you don’t realize that
you don’t know anything
until you have a realization about it,
then can you
ever
really
                 know
anything?

It’s a conundrum, isn’t it?
Goingthrough life inarapidpace
knowing everything
but realizing nothing…
until the realization
happens and you
realize
something that you have
“known”
all along.

And then it hits you.
The AHA! moment
that we often hear about
but may rarely experience…
and then…
and then this realization takes over,
washing our perspective in the bleach of understanding,
ridding the “knowing” of all the stains
of bias or
self-pity or
ignorance
creating this realization that is
blinding as the midday sun,
sometimes too hard to look at
yet gripping enough to draw our gaze.

And then you realize that
you didn’t really know
what you thought you knew
until you had that realization about it.
Until we realize
we don’t know
until the realization comes,
we can never truly
know anything.