I wish I knew everything. Literally. I wish I knew how to calculate the inertia of a moving vehicle. I wish I knew how the feedback system worked, how the CNS and PNS relate and function. I wish I knew how to evaluate a series. I wish I knew how birds fly. I wish I knew how airplanes stay up. I wish I knew the capitals of the fifty states of the United States of America. I wish I knew who the hell Fidel Castro was. I wish I knew who shot president James Garfield in 1881. I wish I knew what the hell the Monroe Doctrine was about.
I wish I knew everything.
I wish I could write volumes of compelling literature, I wish I could make awe-inspiring art, I wish I could recite beautiful words of poetry off the top of my head. I wish I could carry on a discussion about something vital, not why the Giants lost to the Eagles. I wish I could play the piano by ear, make a violin weep, or a saxophone laugh.
I wish.
Sometimes I just feel so bound by my own incapacity that it frustrates me.
The world...the world is just so expansive. What are you by comparison? That tiny little bubble of drama and gossip that is your life just disappears when you take a step back and see the entire picture. When there are six billion other people occupying the same planet you do, it is hard to think of yourself.
Because that's when you realize how insignificant you are.
*This post was inspired by a facebook note written by Yasmeen R.
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