Superstitions, conspiracy theories and knowledge all come from the same place. They fill the desire to understand. People have an inherent desire to know, to make sense of the world and of circumstances – and an unwillingness to accept that perfect knowing is not possible.

We expect our leaders to know things we don’t know; and that’s reasonable. But when new information comes about, we act as thought the information was always available and willfully ignored – perhaps for some nefarious reason.

We all want easy answers. But we have been taught that this is lazy thinking, so some dig and dig – looking for truth that simply doesn’t exist. And the harder we dig, the harder we look, the more compelled we are to believe the connections we have concocted in our minds.

Those hard-earned truths are hard to dispel. They weren’t easy answers – they were hard to come by – and the more effort the answers took, the more ingrained the lesson.

We believe something. Maybe because we were told. Or maybe because we were taught. Maybe we have done extensive research, listened to countless YouTube videos and even read some pretty interesting facts. But the one truth is that we might be wrong.

Maybe that is wisdom. Knowing what you know, believing what you have come to believe and a willingness to accept you could be wrong.