Fluid Sanctum

My sanctuary isn't a single location that has meaning to me, no. My place of zen is fluid, because I'm soothed not by a place but by the search for knowledge. So long as I'm attaining new knowledge I feel right at home where I am. Libraries, in the classroom, in my own room, as long as I can scrounge up more information on a topic of interest, I will feel an overwhelming sense of satisfaction. It's this fluidity that is the genius of my sanctuary.

The search for knowledge is an endless quest. New questions will always be packaged with new knowledge, thus creating a perpetual cycle. My sanctuary extends beyond physical bounds, beyond water damage and rust, and fires. The only limitation is time, my time. Which is why I spend so much of my time inside my own bubble, collecting, cataloging, and stashing, this knowledge.

Often times the word knowledge connotes "book learning", formulas, facts, and things of the like. I believe that knowledge is not limited to facts about the outside world, but also the knowledge of self. As I've grown older I've though more and more about how much I really know about myself, my ambitions, my motivations, my fears. Thinking about each one of these topics and unraveling why I act one way and not the other,

But why is this knowledge important to me? What drives me to seek it, to dedicate hours of my day to its accumulation. Beyond a natural human impulse to just know, I believe it's more of a responsibility to know, to be informed on your world. The more you know the better solutions you can form to aid yourself and your community.