Have you ever come to a point where everything you thought you knew was really nothing you knew at all?  For so many years I thought I knew why I believed what I believed or did what I did. I thought I had the right to be indignant, to speak for my beliefs and ways as if they were the only ways that could be.  I was rooted which was is good, but I also thought that if you didn’t agree with me or thought a different way that you were the one who was wrong.  The old adage that “with age comes wisdom” is so very true.  I wish someone could tell our younger indignant, “know it all” selves this. Especially in our teen years and early twenties.  Oh the troubles and tribulations I could have been spared if only I hadn’t been so certain  that I was right about everything.   The truth is I was right about nothing and wrong about most everything.   

Life has a funny way of teaching us along the way.  I have yet to meet a person who has been spared trials and tribulations.  My luggage that I carry containing my life lessons may have more weight than yours it may have a few more sad stories and it may make you stop mid thought, drop your jaw, and leave you in deep awe.  However, my luggage is not any more important or meaningful or life changing than your very own luggage that you are carrying right now. The luggage that may have defined all that you know and are certain of.  But, here is the kicker, you too know nothing, you are not grounded in what you know or think you know.  You could wake up tomorrow and everything you thought you knew and were certain of could be swept out from under you, like the right piece of the Jenga tower pulled and all the blocks come tumbling down.  

I write this to remind you to be true. True to yourself and to others, be kind, be open minded, do not live under the knowledge that religion, politics, schooling, racism, gossip, fear, love, or hate sets in your mind.  There is not one person alive who knows it all, it is impossible. For what you know today may be gone tomorrow. Stop knowing and just live, live for today, for those you love, for peace, for love, for laughter, for fun, live for yourself just do it in a way that will enrich this world.