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| Ó 2012 Currie Silver |
Sometimes, and please don’t laugh…
I simply don’t have a clue
Don’t know
And I feel exposed
Then, without fanfare
I say so.
Oh what I can learn… THEN
Why is it so difficult to NOT know?! To BE uncertain?! In
the dark?! Outside without any view in?! It is like a nasty virus that no one
wants to admit they have and simultaneously reason enough to laugh at others
for having. It is a total deal-breaker, too, with kids in the WHY?! WHY?! WHY?!
Stage. In fact, I think it’s harder than most anything we have to learn in Life.
Saying I DON’T KNOW
is terrifying, the first oh, hundred bazillion times or so. And then something
happens. It stops BEing so scary. It starts to pay some mighty unexpected
dividends. In fact, BEing Willing NOT To Know BEcomes a joyous occasion. It has
the capacity to elevate us higher than any knowing it all or any initials after
our name ever could.
It’s never easy to get to where saying I don’t know feels fine. It’s something we’ll often resist,
initially. I see this more in people far older and younger than I. As for me
and others in similar stages of Life, saying I don’t know is a little like flying…
I love you, Currie
1 comment:
Currie, this is a wonderful post. You're so right about it. My kids are younger then the "why, why, why?" stage and I am already scared of the moment when I'll have to tell them "I don't know"...
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