When Columbus discovered America...

did he have any idea what he was going to unleash on the world? I wonder....

Did he know the new paradigms, the future of the human race for the next four odd centuries would see the rise and fall of nations and this nation in particular would come to dominate global geo-politics, economics and even doom and gloom at some point in time?

My sense is he didn’t.

And that gives me hope for the future - yours, mine, ours.

We may not always know what we have come across - whether that glittering piece stuck in your shoe is a diamond (potentially) or a sliver of glass. should you just snap it out and flick it away? Or should you avoid wearing shoes altogether or fear that a "stone" may get stuck?

This willingness to just be, to not know one's true worth, this lack of true knowledge (if I may call it that) - may just be the making of the human race. Or the breaking point (- but then there are enough of those already and we the 'sunshine' people choose to focus on the good things!;-
)) For not knowing something's true worth, makes it potentially priceless! And that that the potential is not yet defined gives you the room to let your imagination soar! Afterall, we don't know if something is impossible or not, so why not reach out for the stars!

Meow!;-))