24/09/2021
KNOWLEDGE vs KNOWING
Let me shake the tables of your mind a little today.
Most times, we think we KNOW a thing or concept because we have KNOWLEDGE.
Alas.....not really.
Between Knowledge and Knowing a thing.....there is a gap.
Knowledge is all the information or data you have accumulate over time about a thing, subject, object or concept.
But KNOWING.......is experiencing something.
Let me explain:
When we were in secondary school, geography commented me.
In Geography, we studied and read and accumulated knowledge about some land features like anthills, boulders, hanging caves, rift valleys etc
Yet, we have never seen, felt, smelt, tasted nor heard them in real life.
Till this day, I still won't know a continental plate if I see one.
Again see it this way:
"Can you truly say you KNOW how Egusi soup tastes by reading about it in a book.?"
What I am saying is that there is so much we have KNOWLEDGE of.......that we need to experience.
Visit that zoo, orphanage, library, cave, monastery, forest, mountain, Museum, factory etc
Move past Knowledge......experience it!