Everything You Know Is Wrong

Everything You Know Is Wrong
By David Stoddard

What if that was true? What if what we think we know was just the opposite? How different would we be? How different would our circumstances be? Where would we be in the different areas of our lives?

Before you think it’s a crazy notion, understand, we’ve all proven this to be the case more often than we may care to admit.

How many times have we thought to ourselves:

I could never write a book –
until we sat down and did it.

I could never ride a bike -
until one day when we peddled our legs off riding down that hill and hitting a tree

I don’t have the time –
until an emergency came up where we “found” the time.

I’m not a good parent –
until our kids surprised us with a card for no reason.

I could never give a speech –
until that time we won the award for best speaker.

I’ll never learn this computer -
until we see how often we have taught others.

Despite our best efforts to prove ourselves right, we have managed quite often to do things beyond what we believed we could.

For some reason, it gets tougher to fight our vast experience and knowledge as we get older. We have all these years wrapped up in doing something, how in the world can we possibly be different? So we just sit and stay with what we have always “known” and not worry so much about thinking about the possibilities because they seem so remote.

So it’s time to stop helping ourselves to be right all the time. Let’s work on proving ourselves wrong. Change our thoughts of ourselves and things we can’t do. Start seeing ourselves as being able to do these different things and then work on proving ourselves right.

Weird Al Yankovic had a song “Everything You Know Is Wrong.” There is a line in the song that truly stands out and means something deeper than I imagine he was thinking about when he wrote it.

“Black is white, up is down and short is long…. And everything you thought was just so important doesn’t really matter.”

Looking back, we can see the things we thought were just so important to us at a given time, really don’t matter all that much today. As the saying goes, if you could look through all of your files that were marked important from the past year, the only things you would keep would be the paperclips.

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(c) David Stoddard - All Rights Reserved

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