Imagine time flowing backwards. The clocks ticking anti, fallen leaves going up and becoming green again, the dead coming back to life, cellphones, laptops and all the cool-awesome-tech-stuff disappearing...Oh wait! Enough of the imagination thing. You cannot just imagine your life like that or can you?
Imagine yourself walking miles to study under tress in open air. Gaining knowledge was tough back then but now it's easy. A google search... Oh stop! Is it really that easy? Just because you have Google and Bing to search stuff and Ctrl-F to find things quickly do you think getting knowledge has become easy? Think again!
The most important question, why are you in a quest of knowledge? If you seek knowledge because you need an answer to a question or you need to reply and shut someone up in that debate which is going on on Facebook and you open a new tab and start typing, "what is...", you're not gaining knowledge. If you are gaining knowledge so that you can brag about it before other people, you're defying the whole purpose of knowledge.
What is the quest for knowledge? It's the same when tiny insects run after sources of light, a thirst which can only be quenched by the soil of your grave. And you seriously thought alcohol was addictive? Try tasting a drop from this ocean, you'll want to suck it up all.
True knowledge is meant to make you think more and shout less. It is meant to make you wonder and want more of it. A touch of knowledge will make you arrogant but a dip in this sacred pool will make you humble.
I take an example from my own self. At an early stage of life I used to think that I am an awesome programmer and I know everything but then I got more into it and I realized that if the entire earth were full of water I hadn't even tasted a tiny drop in totality. You think you're cool? Dude try assembly language.
Why knowledge? For sharing for sure. When you die, nothing will remain after you except the knowledge spread by you. But people will learn from me and ditch me? For this I have a solution I use myself. Teach people and learn something more and better. This way you'll teach everyone and will still have an edge over them.
Knowledge is open! Knowledge is free!
Imagine yourself walking miles to study under tress in open air. Gaining knowledge was tough back then but now it's easy. A google search... Oh stop! Is it really that easy? Just because you have Google and Bing to search stuff and Ctrl-F to find things quickly do you think getting knowledge has become easy? Think again!
The most important question, why are you in a quest of knowledge? If you seek knowledge because you need an answer to a question or you need to reply and shut someone up in that debate which is going on on Facebook and you open a new tab and start typing, "what is...", you're not gaining knowledge. If you are gaining knowledge so that you can brag about it before other people, you're defying the whole purpose of knowledge.
What is the quest for knowledge? It's the same when tiny insects run after sources of light, a thirst which can only be quenched by the soil of your grave. And you seriously thought alcohol was addictive? Try tasting a drop from this ocean, you'll want to suck it up all.
True knowledge is meant to make you think more and shout less. It is meant to make you wonder and want more of it. A touch of knowledge will make you arrogant but a dip in this sacred pool will make you humble.
I take an example from my own self. At an early stage of life I used to think that I am an awesome programmer and I know everything but then I got more into it and I realized that if the entire earth were full of water I hadn't even tasted a tiny drop in totality. You think you're cool? Dude try assembly language.
Why knowledge? For sharing for sure. When you die, nothing will remain after you except the knowledge spread by you. But people will learn from me and ditch me? For this I have a solution I use myself. Teach people and learn something more and better. This way you'll teach everyone and will still have an edge over them.
Knowledge is open! Knowledge is free!
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