The acquisition of information is to give us knowledge and understanding and is considered power. The power to control our lives, the power to control our surroundings and the power to control other people. This statement is written on the walls of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Knowledge is power. The bible says that people are ever seeing and never getting enough. Or ever learning and never being satisfied. Knowledge for knowledge sake is a worthless endeavor.

Understanding and knowledge have to be put into practice for it to mean anything. The bible says that anyone who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him is sin. When you put knowledge and understanding into practice, it becomes experience. When knowledge and understanding become experience, it then becomes wisdom. When knowledge, understanding and experience become wisdom, then it becomes discretion. Discretion is a way of living your life so that people can trust you. Being trustworthy is a life long ambition. And if you lose your trustworthiness, it is very hard to get it back.

So, how do you use this knowledge and understanding? It is used in the betterment of mankind. Helping each other is the goal our lives. In each of us has a basic instinct that compels us to help one another. It doesn’t matter who or where you are from. Our lives are intertwined with each other. If you don’t reach out to another person, you are cut off and alone. Our heart reaches to find a connection with another person, whether we are conscientiously aware of it or not. It is always there.

The Age of Information gives us all that knowledge at our fingertips. So, what do you do with it? Is it so important that we keep our nose to the phone that we miss everything that is going on around us. Or do we look up and use that knowledge in the pursuit of helping mankind.

Crain Blanchard.

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