Ruminations

Today, I was asked what it was I had learned in my three-plus decades. I took my time and answered "nothing". The person to whom I spoke took my response as an all-too-familiar sarcastic reply. I was serious. I can honestly say that I feel I know less now than when I was younger. Sure, I have more facts at my disposal, and a well stocked english vocabulary, but I am full of more questions now than I ever was before. Answers are elusive and in multiples. I have become quite comfortable in this state of ambiguity. In fact, I love the chaotic mass of interconnections and pseudo-answers that inevitably climb out of the miasma of questions. I fear the day that I have a hard and fast answer. When I know "truth" beyond the shadow of a doubt, that is the day that I become dangerous to myself and others.