The Burden of Knowing

"The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins... you may see the world around you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewer of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you." -Merlin to the future King Arthur, offering a cure for his sadness and pain (T.H. White, The Once and Future King)




The unfulfilment within me pushes me to learn "why the world wags and what wags it". That's why I chose Sociology. And the more I learn, the more I know; and the more I know, the more hopelessness I feel, the heavier the misery which weighs down on my heart.



The world needs a visionary, one who comes in the name of Another, the thongs of whose sandals I'm not worthy to untie.






I smell a revolution arising. It is time.






For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. -Solomon (Ecclesiastes 1:18)

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" -Isaiah 6:8