When I was a child I was once called naïve. To be naïve that means you are showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement. When I learned what naïve meant I felt a need to not be, to me being called naïve meant you just didn't know. I didn't like that. The madness in the unknown can take control, in a way I guess it did... I'm not about to gloat about how I was a A++ student cause I definitely was not. I didn't care to much about school itself, but I did enjoy learning what I did. I once had a teacher pick me for this competition where a bunch of students got together and took a lot of test. I was horrible at test also wasn't the brightest student I could not understand why she picked me, so I asked, she said it's because you have street smarts instead of book smarts. As a child I had no idea what that even meant, so I asked again, she said it meant I learned by experience and see things in a different way. I liked that to me she told me I was smarter than the straight A student. Although I didn't win that competition I gained something...knowledge... Thus it began I sought out to know a much as I could about anything I could. I wanted to be able to know the dreaded questions of how, what, where and why. I didn't want to know everything just the things that caught my attention, or would be useful in life. It didn't help everyone coming to me asking me how to do something as if I would automatically know. I guess it just added fuel to the fire. As the years went on I gained knowledge and experience and it was wonderful. Skip forward to adulthood. With having this knowledge it's hard to keep it all in some people like that I know so much about topics, others not so much. I never have and never will say I know it all because I know I don't. To the people who think I act like a know it all. I'm sorry I don't mean to seem that way but when we are having a conversation and you say something I know is not true I will let you know. If you try to tell me I am wrong, I will show you I am right. If you know I am wrong do please correct me I look forward to that. I will not get mad, like you, because you corrected me I will be appreciative that you gave me more knowledge. That's just it though, I look at being corrected as a teaching, a chance to gain more insight. While you look at it as I am attacking you and standing high on a pedestal, when in reality I am reaching for you to bring you up with me. If someone tells me an apple is a banana I will not let them go around calling an apple a banana. Than again I really only correct people when its a topic I know a lot on, that way I can back up my reasoning. So if you say I am wrong please show and tell me why. If I know very little I tend to start off with "I think..." if I am wrong, I am wrong, and that's ok with me. If neither of us know the answer I will find the answer out for us. I am sorry I want to know plenty of information, but so should you. They say knowledge is power, well to much power can destroy the world, but only with imbalances. Spread the knowledge is to spread the power. Remember that next time you want to call someone a know it all.
