This year it is 100 years since Albert Einstein changed the
world by postulating his theory of General Relativity…. and even if you never
have to think about it……it affects you daily…. specially, of course if ever you
use your GPS device and you do not want to get lost …time dilation, a direct
consequence of Einstein’s theory must be taken into account when you calculate
your position with the accuracy you are so used to
.... and even if I can never aspire to reach an
understanding of life the universe and everything… that comes even close to
that of Mr. Einstein…by the way; the
answer may according to some sources be 42…parts of who I am can still be
understood on the basis of some of his more famous quotes. So here goes…
I have always been very curious...as a kid I used to drive
both teachers and my parents nuts with all my questions…some say it is a
miracle that any curiosity ever survives formal education but some reason mine
is as strong now as once it was
For me it is funny and slightly disturbing how some people
see me as smart when I see myself as nothing but….I have no particular
talent….guess the best you can say is that I am passionately curious….I do not know a lot about anything,
I am not an expert…..I am but a novice journeyman and all that can be said is maybe that I know
a little something about a lot of things.... paradoxically thou……I realize that
the more I learn…. the more I realize how little I really know.
However, as much as I love to learn I also thirst for
stopping to smell the roses…to really live at times you just have to stop… take a pause… to wonder at the nature we have
so closely around us…to stand rapt in awe and to drink it all in…
In a way I am also a pacifist, a militant pacifist at
that….. willing to fight for peace…. knowing in my heart the fight for peace is
not won in battle and cannot be kept by force….. knowing in my heart that peace
can only be achieved by understanding….. understanding not only who we are but
also our enemies….understanding not only our strengths but also the frailty of
our minds, our biases, and our weaknesses….by realizing that the world is a
dangerous place to live: not because some people are evil but because of the
people who are willing to stand by and let evil has its way…….realizing that we
cannot solve our problems using the same thinking we used when creating
them…realizing we need to find new ways of thinking
I can only hope you got a glance of who I am…who I was… and
who I am trying to become…a man of value rather than a man of success…and on
that realize, just like Einstein, that any man who can drive a car while
kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves
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