Truly, we can’t understand everything.
To lead a valid life, we need many things: we have to face a variety of issues every day, we have some aspirations and dreams, we encounter injustice and inequality, failures and successes, and what not. All this sweetness and bitterness make our lives colourful.
Now examine some aspects to see the demands of our lives in general.
Say someone is connected to education and indulges in reading, writing, and teaching during their waking hours. But he or she can’t escape health issues, developmental issues, ranking issues, consumption issues, social issues, and above all, family issues in his daily affairs. To make it straight, assume one individual comes across 100 issues per day, out of which only 5 are related to his or her domain, 10 are related to his spouse and kids, 15 are to be addressed by health experts, 20 arise from food shelters and transportation, and the remaining are miscellaneous. Individually, that person can’t handle all affairs effectively because he or she is basically academic.
Thus, the above situation is just elaborated to understand the position of a person and the tasks he or she can design on their own to make their lives hassle-free to the extent possible.
We must understand our own field as clearly and deeply as possible. It is his or her domain that must be in focus day in and day out. It is the basis of social recognition.
Nevertheless, We must not be detached from family, personal, social, environmental, and other issues influencing our living conditions in varying degrees. Being ignorant of these vital aspects of our lives is most likely to spoil our future.
Truly, we can’t understand everything. Nobody can deny this factual position. On the other hand, we also get opportunities to expand our knowledge, establish our understanding, gain some insights, and extend these benefits to larger groups of people. If we prefer to remain aloof from the chaos and upheavals all around us, we become weak and classify ourselves as insecure and vulnerable every now and then. We must be aware of the rules of the road when driving a vehicle for a short or long journey. In cases of fault, saying "I am academic" serves no purpose.
We must have information, data, editorials, cartoons, and other multicoloured inputs easily available, even in the remotest places. What is to be done? Instead of coming to quick fixes, we must analyse them for the purpose of expanding our own viewpoints, deleting wild assumptions, and correcting fake information.
Time is never a constraint for a person with a strong willingness to improve, regardless of the nature of their pursuits.
Truly, we can improve our choices. Truly, we can make our domains shine. Truly, we can have basic ideas of history, geography, or anthropology, though our area of expertise is geometry.
Now, the crucial point is how to create interest. Here, most of us fail. The common answer is "I have no interest" . It is unacceptable in the sense that the same person gets panicked when breathing troubles arise or his kid is going to another continent for higher study, which is still unknown to the family. Keeping some ideas about general things is never burdensome. Truly, we are not venturing into other relevant areas that may prove boons at any point in time.
The great trouble is that we resist change. Change starts with knowledge. We don’t consider that our part of knowledge is rubbish that deserves to be discarded without loss of time. When existing water tape shows some defects, we get it replaced with a new model. Why not use the same principle in the case of obsolete data and interpretation? When we delete something messy from our minds, we get an opportunity to feed new information and findings into our minds.
Truly, we are not interested in making ourselves more capable. Nothing substantial is lost provided we change our habits and hobbies and refuse to be half-hearted in our endeavours henceforth.