Wow, finally a more serious tone has set in in this blog.
Kinda inspiring i should say.
"The only thing that cannot be stolen from you is knowledge. If it does, you are already dead."
I have very contradictory views about this.
In my view, there are two points of focus in the sentence. One is "only", the other is "stolen".
"Only" being an absolute and "stolen" being so strong. When both are placed together, it gives this very solemn kind of feeling to me.
While i believe that knowledge is something that cannot be stolen but being the only thing?
Without any doubts, I think this statement is a great motivation for one to pursue knowledge. But is knowledge a derivative of something greater, stronger? Like passion?
Passion to move forward, to succeed, to overcome.
Passion to learn, to retain, to renew.
That is passion in this aspect.
If knowledge can be stored, it must have been dealt with a great deal of determination and (pardon me)passion.
We have strived for details, facts, skills for the past 20 years and im quite sure we have lost some of them. Skills we may have not but nonetheless i believe that they can be stolen from us by time and arrogance in some cases.
Maybe we should view the issue in a more optimistic way.
The ones that are not being able to be stolen can be considered as knowledge?
Wisdom do not actually have to be attributed solely to academic, skill efficency or physical strength.
Wisdom, knowledge, virtues and their true meanings are so vague in this vast space.
Life.
Maybe, just maybe it matters in a more personal charisma. Knowledgable anot, we leave it to the consequences to decide.
Yet we have to take into account that the lives that are led are not by others or by the situation but rather by the one living it.

damned