I don’t know everything.
There, I said it.
I don’t know everything because I am still learning.
I have lived for almost fifteen years on this earth. That’s not a long time. I’ve lived, and breathed maybe more then some, but I still breathe the same air everyone else does.
I have a photography business, yet I can be better. I don’t know all the skills, I still make mistakes. I forget my camera card or show up with only one camera.
I am a great writer. I’ve written two drafts of a book, but I still hate at least one of them. And the second, well, I’d only use some of it to salvage. I am decent at poetry, but I can always, always be better at it.
I have strengths and I have weaknesses. I’m a passionate person with a quick, fiery temper. I’m so stubborn, and yet so willing to explore. I love the special people in my life, but I have trust issues and doubts. I want to know God more, yet I don’t want him to take control, even though he already has it. I can memorize a piano piece well, and my ear can make out almost any song you play, but musically technically, I could sure use some work.
But my point is, I am learning.
I’ve noticed that as humans we think the more we work at something, we will soon become the best. In art history, for example, A general question could be asked. “Is modern day art even better then… Greek? Byzantine? And the truth is, no.
And you know why? because overtime, the goal of art wasn’t to keep doing it so that there could be this masterful art form that reigned over all the others at the end of the line. The goal of art was and is to learn and explore. To try, convey, depict- a work that you’re proud of.
The belief that as you get older you’re better at (Enter whatever here) It’s not necessarily true. You might be wiser, absolutely! And you become more mature, but at 14 now, this Know-it-all is hopefully making some headway with my pride by making a blog post titled “I Don’t know everything.”
I think if we realized that at all ages, we could learn, till our end, we wouldn’t be chasing such a far finish line that gets farther and farther as we go. Why don’t we learn to just run first?
To end us off, A quote from another Renaissance Master like a previous post, haha.
“I am still learning” -Michelangelo