I feel like I'm not being treated fairly. At this stage in my life, I should have some certainty. That seemed to be the promise. When I was young, everything I read and heard was that if you wait long enough, you will find out what you need to know. Well, it's not happening. The older I get, the less I'm certain about. Things that I thought I knew for sure are turning out to be just another delusion. Things I thought I could count on are turning out to be less sure than some of the fantasy stuff. Right now, I can stand in the middle of the woods and direct dial Australia and talk to someone there as if they were standing next to me. It's incredible. If I have a question, I can hop on the computer and within minutes have an answer. I can't be sure it's the right answer, but I will have an answer. Our access to information is incredible. The problem is that it doesn't come with knowledge. We can have pedantry, but we can't have knowledge. The difference is that we can have the facts, but we can't be sure we know how those facts fit in with everything else. Anyway, I did one that sort of fits this, so here it is.
My Life
There are times when my life
feels like the moon shining on calm water
I can see it clearly
but I know it's not really there
Copyright 2010 Carl Thames
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