It baffles me sometimes to see many people carry on in life with a wrong approach; believing they have the monopoly of knowledge and the key to open all the locks of wisdom. A lot of people are in such category today, thinking that life can only be view from the prism of their understanding of issues, while any other observation contrary to theirs is warped and out of order.
What will you do if later in life you discover that all your notions and belief about life are nothing but a wind? Life can be better lived and enjoy if only we could be open to learning and take a little patience to seek alternative views to ours.
In my sojourn so far in this life, I have seen a number of close associates behaving as if life experience start and ends with them and there is nothing others could do or say to influence their position on issues. Even when all indications pointed to the fact that they are on the wrong path, yet they are never sway by the truth because the only truth they know is their own judgment or their own version of truth.
I could recall my early experience as a teenager, when a cousin of mine was explaining to us how artists record music in the studio and how the sound engineers manage the mixing to achieve sweet melody. Of course by our reaction, we felt this cousin of mine was just blabbing and have no clue to the operational mode of recording studio. Our conclusion then was merely based on our limited understanding, while his description of a musical recording studio was considered impracticable in our own eyes.
Years later, a number of us discovered that we were merely arguing in ignorance and that our vilification of my cousin’s position was because we refused to listen and ask the salient questions on how he arrived at the conclusion or sources of his information. We had assumed that since we grew up together within the same environment and never been exposed to such technicalities of a recording studio, my cousin must have been speaking from the point of ignorance. How wrong we were, if only we had asked the relevant questions and delve more into his source of information before we condemned him, we would have been better informed and our assessment of him would have been different.
So, it was with many people today, they behave like the fool who thinks he is wise. Our attitude toward life is basically comparable to an ostrich ways of life, ignore all wise counsel and focus rigidly on our perception of truth without giving a thought to the fact that our view of things could be wrong.
Why don’t you pause and ponder regularly on your position on any issue. Carry out a check up on your ignorant level, how often are you right on an issues and how often you are wrong in your judgement of things and men as well. If we constantly do a check on our behaviours, then we may as well get to know how often we act in ignorance and how such attitude has continue to place limitation on the way we are perceived by others.
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