The Empowering Limits of Human Perception

The invaluable act of human ponder. (Image Credit: Helena Cook/Unsplash)

I’ve always had an affinity for free thought and the act of pondering. In high school, my favorite teachers were those in philosophy, history (a subject I’d only come to appreciate in recent times), and English. They were the ones that could facilitate conversations that went far beyond the realm of, say, the relatively limited world of what algebra offered.

But it was not until recently that I really started to explore that part of me a little more thoroughly. I have picked up an incredibly fulfilling reading habit, usually paired with cigar. My explorations into political policy, culture, sociology, psychology, and philosophy are my life blood, my quiet passion. I spent my 20s in the haze of addiction — a haze I believe millions of Americans unknowingly live in— but from where I sit now, I’d take an evening deep thought and conversation over more, call them primitive, pursuits.

They force me to sit down, and slow down. I like that. (Image Credit: silviu bocan/Unsplash)

Part of this recent awakening in me came from the most unassuming of places: just the simple acknowledgement and awareness of the limits of human perception.

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