Wednesday, April 21, 2010

18 years young

I was in the Library the other night and was on my way out when something caught my eye. It was a sires of old books about the British occupation of India. I was just looking at it for a second, and noticed that it had 10 volumes, and I took a second to open up one of the books and flip through it. And of course, I had no idea what it was talking about, yet there in front of me were hundreds of pages about it.

You know, sometimes I feel totally ignorant. Despite having 18 years of education, I still know soo soo little of the mountain of stuff out there, I mean, about everything. Granted, I know some things, but there's just so much out there. My friend Daniel once said, "You know when you graduate high school you feel like you know everything. When you graduate college, you feel like you know nothing." I think that's so true.

I mean there's just so many cool things to learn out there, I can't imagine how you could possible learn everything. Just take one country for example, like China. I know so little about it! Or like a small country, like Georgia, umm, I just know they used to be apart of Russia, and that they were invaded a few summers ago? Or, who invented football? Or what about industrial microbiology. How does the moon's gravity possibly affect tides on Earth? Who's the best soccer player in the world? How can you make a great beer at home? What's the deal with that little island south of Italy? How can someone run so fast?

Ok, the deal is that there's no way you can know everything. And to try is silly. But do what you to well, and have fun, keep learning, and bring God glory through what He has made while you try to figure it out, see His glory in it. Look at how His hand has been in history and in today, how He has been at work. It's good stuff!

See you at Dacus

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