Weighing the Scales

May 27

Imagine, for a moment, that we’ve stolen the scales of Anubis, and we held them against our mind.

Perfectly balanced. Perfectly capable of judging all things.

On one side would be the weight of what we know. The byproduct of all the trying, striving, turning, hoping, and effort we’ve accumulated.

The other side would be the weight of what we know we do not know. The know world of things we have forgotten, or haven’t gotten around to yet, or have been inattentive to.

How would you want the scale to look?

You might take the route of Socrates and dump the whole weight of what you know in favor of the unknown.

But then what would you have to show for your time here?

Or you could lift the world and, heaving it above your head, drag it down into the realm of the knowable.

But then how small would your reality be?

Maybe those are scales we want to leave balanced?

Always learning, always forgetting, always discovering more things to forget?

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