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PWD got me to thinking about this. WD said that when he was 16 he was the worlds authority on everything. Now that he is 64 he realizes that he is just another dumb old guy.

I never really thought that I knew everything. When I was 20 it really came home to me that I didn't know didley about anything. I had the great epiphany while on the road to Damascus. What Mother and Daddy had failed to learn me about was how to navigate the schoals of life. It was always just a matter of blindly mucking your way through the storms of life as if there was no rhyme or reason. What I set about doing was trying to figure out the rhyme and reason of why things happen. I started to put the pieces to together into some kind of coherent picture. I knew from day one that it would be no easy task and it would take allot of time, of which I was more than willing to put the time on the table.

Now nearly 35 years on, I can finally say that I have the confidence to say that yeah I do know a little about something. The big thing I know is that when I run into something that I don't know about, I realize it. Another way to look at it is that a mans got to know his limitations.

The first big awareness of my ability to shape situations came when I realized that when a rock was dropped in my pond I was able to pull back within myself, spot the cause of the ripple which in of itself diffuses the situation and indicates a course of action to take. I would describe that as being able to thread the eye of a needle. The second dawning of light came when I started interacting on these Boards and realized that I was able to predict the reaction of people to various stimulus that I presented. That lead to the ability to prepare a counter course of action on my part to the possible spectrum of reactions. It has almost become mathematical in its predictability. From this the third awareness came from face to face meetings with Board members one might say that I am able to tailor the image of myself to fit the image someone wants to have of me.

One might say that I have been able to harness clarity of purpose to my endevors in life.