I'm Wrong

I'm wrong.

Every day I almost drown in the sea of my wrongness.
I'm wrong so often, it's a wonder I'm ever right.
Sadly, this is inevitable.
I know virtually nothing when compared to the total knowledge of humanity.
Whenever I open my mouth, no matter how right I think I am,
it's almost infinitely more likely that what comes out
is simply a display of what I do not know,
how wrong I really am, rather than a display of what I do know.
Sadly, this obviously doesn't apply to just me, it applies to all of us.
Even more sadly, it applies equally to humanity as a whole,
for we know virtually nothing when compared to the set of all possible knowledge.

This fact doesn't stop me from speaking.
It shouldn't. If we want to improve, it can't.
We cannot grow if we are not confronted with our wrongness.
If I kept it to myself,
I could be perfectly content in the belief that I'm right.
It is only by speaking out my thoughts and feelings
and then accepting reality when others prove it,
that I can learn how ignorant, misguided, silly,
and just plain wrong that I am.
Again, the same holds true for humanity as a whole.
We need to speak.
We need to listen.
And, we need to genuinely think.
To do otherwise is to submit to delusion.