Ignorance

September 23, 2007 | Filed Under Moment of Truth 

It’s amazing how unctuous we can be at times.  Well, I’ll speak for myself.  It’s amazing how unctuous I can be at times.  By default, I think so highly of myself.  Not necessarily because I just think so highly of myself but because I think so unfavorably of so much that I certainly can’t be a part of that it all must be beneath me. 

Well, that’s pretty much not true.  I’ve being realizing that I have this completely ignorant side to me.  Let me clarify that there will always be ignorance in the sense of not knowing something; omniscience is one of the many things we will always be incapable of.  So that’s not what I’m talking about.  I’m talking about the “that was so highly uneducated and/or inappropriate” ignorant.  Jackass ignorant.  The ignorant that immediately asks “what do you think about women with mustaches?” just as a woman with a mustache sits down directly in front of me.

Really?  Wow.  Yes…I did.  Ignorant.

But fortunately, I was with someone who isn’t afraid to tell me when I’m saying or being something completely out of line.  That’s a blessing…and just what I need.  Now that I unequivocally know that ignorance is a part of me, just as wisdom and open-mindedness are, I can begin to live a more full life, free of at least one delusion.

Truth…the highest good.

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