Otherthinker

'I cannot teach anybody anything,  
I can only make them think.'
              - Socrates      
 
It's okay to be different;  
everything on Earth is strange  
to everything else.  
The quest for understanding  
is the electrical bridge  
within that formless gap  
which luminesces  
and grows experience  
through learning and trying to envision    
what seems nebulous at best.  
   
The mind needs observed differences  
to expand its bank of experience  
and to learn to distinguish  
many points on a spectrum  
and hear those wavelengths  
as musical notes in    
symphonic harmony.  
   
To begin to piece things together  
in a way that fits, and to never  
stop trying is to reach others  
outside our full understanding.    
   
The misunderstood teach us  
so much as they muddle along.  
They open doors into rooms we  
haven't explored within ourselves;  
they exist in a small, dormant state  
that calls to us to pay attention to it.  
   
The power of the mind is exalted in  
this challenge:    
To face what we fear and/or avoid;  
the truth that we are all different from  
all others and no one is the better or the worse.  
   
We all have unique gifts and each one  
has a purpose; to find that purpose  
is a lesson in resourcefulness.  
Some resources are more obvious  
and superficial than others;  
some remain hidden in the attics  
of our minds, yet underutilized.  
   
It's okay to be an Otherthinker.  
   
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