There is a saying here...
In the blind people's country the one-eyed is king.
I've insisted and keep on doing it when I give those talks to my boys about knowledges and how important they are to be ready and prepared for the future.
Life is hard and knowledge is the only wealth nobody can take away from us.
Well, Alzheimer can, but that's a fatal faith luckily not everyone has to go through.
So, the saying above. Sure you got it. The one-eyed, as hard as it might have been for him to lose one eye, has some advantages over the rest, those sight can give.
Appreciation of the environment in a different way and perspective only that sense can give and that, in the saying, makes him king. What he can see and feel others can only feel.
That's also what knowledge ownership provides the way I see it: advantages, tools, ways, paths, plenty perspectives... readiness.
I had nobody to insist on me. Well, my father did a bit the way he could or knew, but it wasn't enough for me. I'm not blaming him, it's more my fault. I guess I should have noticed that, I should have been smart enough to realize how important knowledge was and is, to give myself to the full search of it then that I had the time, the youth, the hunger. I did a little bit, but I realized the real importance of it a bit late when some things were already missing and times had changed. I have sponged in a few knowledges here and there ever since, but sometimes I go back in time and can see how different things would have been if I had realized earlier.
That's why I keep on giving the talks to my sons, cause I want them to see the truth and the need early enough for them to strat their quest. I want them to see the power of knowledge to do in their future whatever they chose, cause in thet whatever knowledges will be a valuable tool to overcome the obstacles and/or challenges.
I want them to value their time and use it wisely to strengthen their minds with knowledge armor.
No matter how blind the environment could be around them, they will always have at least the advantage of the one-eyed king.
