A Simple guy in search of wisdom.

This is my first post and I should probably record what I want to do with this blog and the point of it. This ramble should hopefully explain some of what I am thinking, and why I have chosen this theme. This is probably more useful to me than it is to you, but hopefully you find it interesting to see where this all started.

I doubt many people know me on the world wide web, and of those who do know me just probably know me as Silas. Some will know that I am a designer who designs masks for people with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. But only a few will know that I am just a simple guy who (a couple of years ago now) joked with a friend that I should start calling myself simple Silas. It had a ring to it.

What does it mean to be simple though?

My understanding of what being simple meant a couple of years ago has changed somewhat. Back then I had a yearning for a less busy life: where I would have more time to do things, escape the hubbub of a life in the city, the expectations of University, part-time work and a social life. Call me strange, weird or nutty but I actually wanted to go and live a more rugged life where you would work physically for your energy sources, hunt for your food, be self-reliant and be more connected with nature. That seemed more simple than the back to back assignments, late nights, juggling part-time work, and events at Church.

I thought that this was what it meant to be simple.  I still yearn for a simple life but no longer like the one described.

And so as I was thinking about the things that I should write about in this new blog that I have set up, whether I should start gathering scoops on cool furniture and things all about design, or whether I should just kinda blab on about anything at all in my life I came across a proverb found in the Holy Bible:

‘Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out its seven pillars. She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table. She has sent out her maids, and she calls from the highest point of the city. “Let all who are simple come in here!” she says to those who lack judgement. Come, eat my food and drink the wine I have mixed. Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.’

This really struck me.

It really just made me think I should start writing about things, use this blog as a kind of sounding board for things that I don’t understand and record them down as I try and unravel the many mysteries that I encounter in my life. And lately as I have only just started my job, moved to a new city, and have really experienced a lot of new things in the last year and will most likely still continue to experience things that I don’t understand – I guess I am like that simple person who lack the ability to make judgements or assesments on things due to a lack of experience or understanding. And so I felt the need to write this down, was prompted to record this thought and explain away with words at 12.30am on a Thursday night.

So I guess I feel like I’m a simple guy on a journey to find wisdom in all her fullness, to talk to her, to eat with her, to drink with her and to start walking through life in a way that I gain understanding. And this is the start of me recording this journey.

Tags: Wisdom

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