Each of us thinks s/he has reached wisdom, all anyone really needs to know about life. Maybe we are on the second rung of a 100-step ladder, but having never seen any higher, are unaware that we are missing almost everything. Such awareness, looking up and seeing that we know almost nothing, is perhaps the beginning of wisdom.
It is at that point that we hunger for more. We listen to voices unlike our own. We read outside our comfortable boxes. We travel to places we've never seen. We recognize sparks of wisdom in others. Perhaps wisdom is not about reaching the top, or being ahead of anyone else, we ponder, but something of which we find missing pieces in every human we encounter.
We slowly and carefully erase the lines that have boxed us in, and, not knowing what we might find there, we reach for the third rung.
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