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Affairs with X and Y: The Human Conundrum

One thing about me - I always observe. You could walk into a room and you prolly won't notice me. I watch everyone. Not because I want to, but because people perplex me. Humans fascinate me. Nothing ever misses my four eyes. Don't get me wrong though, I am no creep. I don't invade anyones privacy. I just watch and notice small details that would otherwise escape a normal person.

Long story short; I've watched many people but what have I really taken out of it? "The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all." The ancient Chinese didn't get it wrong there. Socrates also had to say this - " The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing!"

Puzzling is that, we humans are cut from the same cloth yet so different at the same time. In my recent encounters I've come across two types of people. Let me call them X and Y. Y is this mysterious person you struggle to understand. Day one you see him and you think you really know him. Day two he displays another side of him and you think you've fully gotten to know the real him. Day 3 he pulls out a totally different card you didn't think a person like him is capable of and you're left pondering who really is this person. Fast forward, you've interacted with him for more than six months and you still don't get him. His is a real life puzzle. A puzzle too complex for a narrow-minded person to fathom. Y's mystery is more challenging to solve than a sudoku puzzle. He does all this with a surprising subtlety and with a manner not intimidating to those who surround him.

Y is this peculiar individual who has mastered the art of telling you little about themselves but doing it in such a way you think you know a lot. Mind you, he does this in humility because he is as wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove. Strive to be Y if you love yourself. Personally, I'm still on a journey to be Y. It ain't easy though. After all, when you're great it is really difficult to be humble. The will must be stronger than the skill.

Let's now get to my main topic of contention. The group of people who inspired me to bore you with this article.
X is this person who thinks of himself so highly. He thinks he holds the key to knowledge. A typical know-it-all. Person X has this innate superiority complex. Just because they know something, they think you don't. If X shows you something they suddenly brag of how you wouldn't know such stuff if it weren't them. No offence, but X is a character with a bloated ego and an illusioned sense of self-entitlement.

Don't be X. People will avoid you. With time, your knowledge will drive you down a path. A path that will dismally lead to your downfall. One thing you have to understand is that, every person in this world you meet knows something you don't. After all, no one person has the monopoly to wisdom and knowledge. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and the ilk were the true encapsulation of wisdom and knowledge but they didn't go around displaying it. Ask yourself why?

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