we don't know anything (until we try)
from Partly Sunny Lives Hosted by Jieon Jenny Kim
"You don't know until you try!" We have all heard this phrase before - maybe a parent coaxing us to try a vegetable or a coach teaching us a new skill in a sport. Our childhood was filled with learning and trying things. There was also the phrase, however, that "we would understand when we were older" - that we would know all of life's answers. I think I took this phrase to heart. Graduating college, I thought that then was the time I would understand everything and didn't need to keep learning/trying. How I want to live my life, what I want my days to look like - these I thought I would know because I had a cap and gown to show for my transition into adulthood. But the reality is, we don't know unless we ... try. We hear advice, stories, the dos and don'ts on how to live our lives, but the reality is is that we must experience it to truly understand it, whatever "it" is. Maybe someone has told you all your life to make your clay sculpture a certain way because all the other ways are too risky and make your sculpture more susceptible to breaking. But you don't actually know - you've only ever heard. It's up to us to actual do the thing. We don't know until we try.
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