The Possibility of Being Wrong

Posted by Paul Reynolds on Mar 27, 2022 in Blog, Western Insight | Comments Off on The Possibility of Being Wrong

Have you considered the possibility that everything you believe is wrong, not merely off a bit, but totally wrong, nothing like things as they really are?

If you’ve done this, you know how durably fragile those phantoms we hold in our heads are, those wisps of thought that people die and kill for,betray lovers for, give up lifelong friendships for.

If you’ve not done this, you probably don’t understand this poem,or think it’s not even a poem, but a bit of opaque nonsense, occupying too much of your day’s time,
so you probably should stop reading it here, now.

But if you’ve arrived at this line,
maybe, just maybe, you’re open to that possibility,
the possibility of being absolutely completely wrong, about everything that matters.

How different the world seems then:
everyone who was your enemy is your friend,
everything you hated, you now love,
and everything you love slips through your fingers like sand
—-Frederico Moramarco

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