Opus 2024-436: Cognitive

When I am having an overwhelming urge to be humble, I sometimes think of myself as just a cog in Gods universe.  Everyone knows the cogs are nothing important.  Or at least we think that cogs are not important.  They’re certainly not big.  No one thinks of them as being powerful.  A cog by itself doesn’t change the direction of the wheel.

However, it is a mistake to think that a cog is not important, even vital.  Think of the toy you had where one of the cogs broke off the inner mechanism and it would stop working . There might be some machines where a broken cog will not stop the whole process, but even in those machines, it probably gives a little vibration.  In many devices that use spokes and wheels and levers and such a missing cog can halt the whole movement.  Parts will still budge.  Perhaps levers may still go up and down.  Perhaps, but if the part that is missing is on the drive wheel you go nowhere.

I consider myself a cog.  For all I know you may be a cog.  That doesn’t mean that you don’t have a significant place in the universe.  You may not believe that.  I’m not sure I have accepted totally yet.  But I’m working on it.

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