Opus 2025-432: A Timely Reminder

I’m reading one of CS Lewis’s books, Surprised by Joy.  I’m enjoying myself.  It is deep enough to make me think and well written enough that I don’t get bogged down.

Every once in a while when I’m reading something like this it comes to me that I am nowhere near as clever as I sometimes think I am.  I accept the fact that I am at the top end of mediocre.  My son keeps repeating the George Carlin point that half of the population is below average. When you think of average is being an IQ of 100 and not being capable of any advanced thought or analysis then being in the top half is not as impressive as you might think it is.

I enjoy writing.  I enjoy reading.  I keep living in the illusion that I have something to say.  It’s when I’m reading someone who just flows like C.S. Lewis does or Jordan Peterson, I realize that as much as I’m above average, I am still far from the upper part of the curve.

It’s humbling.  It’s also challenging.  There is still the quest to make the most of what I have to work with.  One of the things that modifies my thinking is that I believe that I’m still alive at 77 years because God has something for me to do.  It’s not some impossible dream like Don Quixote had.  It’s not building a perpetual motion machine.  It’s not finding the lost cord.  It’s simply that there are probably some gaps in the world that I can stick my finger in.

And I intend to continue sticking in my finger.

homo unius libri