There is no worse blind than the one who does not want to read.

A Chinese proverb states that ignorance is the night, without the moon or stars, of the spirit. Unfortunately, not everyone recognizes the absolute darkness that implies for a human being not to exercise their intellectual capacity. Knowledge is like a light that allows the eyes to discover the surrounding world and also to see inside people and oneself. Clairvoyance that of the children of the rising sun when they affirm: the sage speaks of ideas, the intelligence of facts, and the common man of what he has eaten.

Aristotle already said it, there is the same difference between a wise man and an ignorant man, as between a living man and a corpse. And it is that the nonsense that everyone who does not cultivate suffers is like a death in life that distances him from possible friends and even from partners. No one likes to be associated with a “hollow brain”—except, of course, another “hollow brain”; It is already known: mediocrity is excellent in the eyes of the mediocre.

Someone wrote that there are two ways to achieve happiness. One, play the idiot; another, be. Skip the irony; but there are, certainly, those who follow the formula: the greater the ignorance, the greater the happiness, which obeys the belief that knowledge wears out and that the more one knows about the world, the more complicated existence becomes. It is still true that the number of horrors that are seen makes you want to ignore them, but ignorance is always an accomplice.

Like the soil, which, however rich it may be, cannot bear fruit if it is not cultivated, the mind without cultivation cannot produce either. Life expands to the extent that we bring it wisdom; each knowledge makes us see further, expands the field of pleasures and deepens them. Life experience gives us to the extent that the acquired knowledge allows us to filter it, take out the compass from it to trace a path.

Seneca believed that we do not learn thanks to school, but thanks to life. Not like that, Don Seneca. Life teaches, but school teaches us to learn; the rest is left to the choice of each one, to their desire for knowledge. It is naive to deny school, on the contrary, we must take advantage of it and take from it the bases to expand personal studies.

“Crime is intelligence when, with each use of it, with the private word as with the public word, with the letter as with the speech, with the act as with the advice, it is not used without traces of self-interest or pushes of confessed or hidden authority.” Jose Marti.

We conquer the whole world before getting out of bed, says a verse by Fernando Pessoa, with a skepticism that I don't blame; when you look at this primitive modernity with the eyes of a poet, there is not much desire left to attack tomorrow. But there is a saying that warns us: nothing has been written about cowards, and another: whenever it rains, it clears. I'm not one to sit back and wait patiently. I like to be on the move and go out and achieve impossible things.

See you tomorrow.