The more I read about some X thing, the more it seems to me that I know little about it. This seems applicable in everything I do. The more research I do, more questions seem to creep up. The more I cook, more and more it seems that I know little. The more I write, the lesser I am convinced about what I write. The more I read, lesser I know. When I realize this, I cannot ignore what I have heard “Ignorance is bliss“. This is so true. One, sometimes, just needs to ignore, in order to achieve what one is set to achieve. As someone has pointed out – When you dig for gold, you must look for gold, not the dirt that covers the gold. One must learn to ignore everything else, all the paraphernalia associated with it. “Digging for gold” seems like a good phrase to hold on to, but it is rather difficult to implement it.
This avid greed to know everything is bad. I, fortunately, don’t have this greed. But, this greed can be very well compared to some people’s habit of wanting to see every nook-n-corner of a new place they are visiting. I have many people going to a new vacation place, and instead of enjoying this place, they have on agenda, to see everything they have heard about this place, every monument, every museum, every sunset point, every beach and every other small thing. In doing this, they forget that their motive in this was to enjoy a vacation, which seems lost while they are leaving this place. They “saw” everything, but did they “enjoy”? Seeking information and seeking knowledge-from-this-information, is something like that. You don’t need to know everything. You only need something, something that is sufficient for you and you feel good about it.
