feeling vs. thinking vs. knowing

A lot of people think that they know a lot. A lot about love, life, and friendship. You quickly find out that these are the people who truly know the least. If someone feels the need to say how much they know about something, in most cases, they don't know shit. Something that drives me absolutely insane is a select few people on Twitter who tweet the most generalized, cliche things about the three aforementioned topics. They say the same few things everyday and just change the wording around a little bit. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion I guess, and my opinion is that these people think that they know what they're talking about. In reality, they don't know anything.

Now I won't sit here and lay claim that I know everything about love, life, and friends because I don't. I never said I did.

I have felt love. I still feel it. Everyday. But just because I've felt it doesn't mean I know what it is.

Thinking, feeling, and knowing are three very distinctly different concepts.

Thinking something is the most juvenile. Anyone can think something. You can think whatever you want in this life as long as you have the intelligence level of a first grader. Thinking is an action for those who don't want to take the time to know something.

Feeling something is the next in line in complexity. If thinking is easy to do, feeling is much harder. It's easier to think about love than it is to feel it. Feeling something is amazing. Especially something as cool as love. Being in love with someone is a unique, hard to come by feeling. I know I've felt it and continue to feel it.

Even though I know that I have felt love, I do not know love. Knowing something for certain is the most complex idea of the three. Knowing something is when you can explain it inside and out, describe every last detail of it, and tell other people how to experience it. I can't explain love to you. I can't tell you how to experience it. And I can't really describe it. All I can say about it is that it's out there. And it is wicked cool.

I just remembered what inspired this whole blog. It was a letter written to me by a buddy. In the letter, at the end, he said, "Sometimes it's better not to feel strong, but to know you're strong." That's a very profound thing to say and I agree with him 100%. I know that I'm strong, I don't need to think it. Take strength in whatever sense you'd like, I know my strengths inside and out. I could tell you what makes me strong and what weaknesses I have. There is no thinking involved.

Looking back this might be the most contradictory blog ever written. I denounced those who claim to know a lot about love and then went on and wrote about how I know that I don't know what it is. One thing I know is that I don't know much.


I know myself though, and maybe that's all I need...


NP: Imagine- John Lennon