“From love is born life, and yet, from life is learned the art of how to love.” When my eyes first gazed over this sentence, my mind lit up with interest. I just sat beside myself in thought. I imagined life being born, waking up to a world of unknown. Using all senses to explore, learn and adjust.

Amir Sabzevary had an interesting view on how we could picture the world. The world can be owned but shared and most of all, the world is to be looked at as a place of experiments. Everything is a learning experience but without experimenting we wouldn’t learn. Amir also explains how you must listen but before you can learn, one must be silent. Which I believe is true.

I once heard the expression, “the older the wiser”. Growing up I was always around older family and friends. I have one sibling of which I’m the oldest. I’ve always wanted an older brother too look up to and listen too. I assume that’s why I was always fascinated by an older being, with the ability to pass down to me. I would listen, ask questions if a question arose, but for the most part I would listen, shake my head and nod to assure my attention was there.

I agree that self-knowledge is important, although I think one must engage with others or other things to have different experiences to gain different knowledge of one’s self; such as the person in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”. The one person who decided to go out beyond the cave, seen things for himself and that the others in the cave only seen as shadows (phantoms). The man in the cave stepped out into this new world, blinded at first by sunlight but had an eye opening experience. The sun, gave him insight to what is blind in the cave. Once he gained the knowledge, he decided to share this with others to pass down this knowledge.

Socrates believed that life needed philosophy (the examined life) and without it, was not worth living. To