A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from The Vision, chapter 33
“Knowledge is power only when we choose to use it to our advantage.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 33
The walk-through
Knowledge isn’t power by default. Some of it makes things worse, and there are things better left unknown — Innocent has more than once wished he didn’t know something. A rosy picture of someone or something gets replaced by an ugly reality, and there is no going back. “It is hard to think more of something you know is worth less; it is hard to lie to yourself.”
What decides the direction is use, not amount. The same knowledge can strengthen you or weaken you, improve things or spoil them. Knowing that you are alive doesn’t make you love life. Knowing that you will die one day needn’t cost you your hope in it.
So the power was never in the knowing. It’s in the choosing — what you do with what you know is what turns it into strength or leaves it as weight.
AI-composed from Innocent's text, reviewed and refined by Innocent.
More from this source
- Deliberately choosing the hard way, even with an easy way within your reach, gives you a chance to benefit from the lessons that challenges teach…
- Your heart is your compass in the journey of life; follow it.
- It takes more to abstain than to err, more to avoid mistakes than to make mistakes; but the good thing is that it gets better with practice.
- A problem or difficulty is only imposing when you sit around doing nothing about it, but when you stand up to it, its stature will be laughable.
- It takes perfect patience to turn your dreams into reality; and perfect patience is never quitting.