Some things I used to think when I was little:
On-Off Sale at a liquor store meant that sometimes you could buy alcohol and sometimes you couldn’t.
A wheelbarrow was called a wheelbarrel… you know… a barrel on a wheel. (And I grew up on a farm. The word came up at least weekly).
Atreyu in the Neverending Story was a very mature teenager. (Was pretty shocked when I saw this as an adult and realized he didn’t even have underarm hair yet)
In the song I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas, the line “where treetops glisten and children listen” ended there and it meant that it was a good night partly because the kids were being obedient.
Horsepower meant the number of horses it would take to pull a carriage as fast as the car can go.
The 1800’s through about the 1940’s were in black and white.
All of the continents were on one side of the planet (the side shown on maps) and on the backside was just water. When I first found out you could almost see Russia from Alaska I was floored.
When you deposited money into the bank they took your deposit to the back and put it in your very own cubbyhole where the rest of your money was sitting. And a withdrawal, of course, came from that same designated pile. I can still remember my shock and dismay when I realized that the money was really just all mixed together and the only way they knew how much was yours was because they had it written down somewhere.
Now, as an adult, I often walk around in my day to day and ponder the following question:
What preposterously false things do I currently believe?
I know there are many. But the very nature of not knowing is that you do not know you don’t know. I like to laugh at myself every once in awhile for all the things I think I know that I don’t even know I don’t know yet.
I suppose all of this is just to say:
Remind yourself daily that you know only a drop in the ocean of what is really out there to know.
And always be on the lookout for truth. Don’t settle for the amount you have.
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