The list of things I don't know is long. How long, I don't know for sure. But it's long. Very long.
I don't care about my ignorance of mundane facts, like the Earth's circumference at the equator, or who's playing in next week's Super Bowl. I leave that shit to Google.
What bothers me is that I don't know how the decisions I make today will impact my tomorrows. If a butterfly's flight in China can cause a hurricane in Florida, what might have happened if I had been named Batgirl instead of Botgirl. It boggles the mind.
(My entry in this week's 100 Word Story Challenge.)
2 comments:
"The list of things I don't know is long. How long, I don't know for sure. But it's long. Very long."
Indeed, the list of things one doesn't know is effectively infinite (if for no other reason than a great many -- actually, an infinite quantity of -- infinite regressions are involved). As you correctly suggest, the exact length of the list of things one doesn't know is an item on the list of things one doesn't know.
What comes to mind in response to the weekly 100 Word Story Challenge is almost always a surprise, sometimes non-fiction, sometimes fictional truth. :)
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