underachieverA better understanding of the PLANET results in a better understanding of our place in it. You know, the things people have been trying to understand since the beginning of people. What is the earth and the plants and the animals and the elements and the space around them and where did they come from and now what and then what? This is much easier for us to understand. we can see it, we can feel it, we can taste it, we can hear it, we can smell it. Our little minds can wrap their grubby little fingers around it. Sort of. Do we fully understand it? No. We understand a tiny part of the big picture. Isolate an infinitesimal part of the whole and disect it. Tear it apart, classify it, and stick it in a book so that others can understand an infinitesimal part of the whole. The splintered parts are comforting, but never come together to complete the picture. I can deal with that.
A better understanding of the PEOPLE results in a better understanding of our place in it. You know, the things people have been trying to understand since the beginning of people. What is life and the mind and the body and the thoughts and the feelings and the space around them and where did they come from and now what and then what? This is the hardest thing for me to understand. It is the most accesible and fully unattainable. It is mine but I belong to it. The first piece of the puzzle. How do you understand anything else if you do not understand yourself? A futile gaze into the neverending.
