Oddly, I am here to converse.

I always preferred to be a passive consumer rather than a vocal producer of conversations, as the ocean of unknowns kept me subdued. Like many of you, my interests regardless of how foundational they are to my character, change very frequently and, I end up with no allegiance to any. Unlike most of you, the opinions that defined my personality kept changing as I let the counterarguments a fair chance. This led me to believe that, my current interests, opinions, and thoughts are just transient. This kept me busy consuming and searching for more conversations that challenge me. I never wanted to start a conversation about any, even though I could be decent at it. Moreover, the future me will regret wasting the time on an opinion that I no longer hold, or a subject that no longer interests me.

I finally found something profound to converse about. Although the subject is millennia old, I was humbled by it the first time I grasped it. Curiously, it is very close to the environment and culture I grew in and seems to be one of the crown jewels of human thought. Unfortunately, it took me 27 years to get exposure to this profound subject. It was always hidden behind the bubbles of superficial and childish ideas of ritualistic primitive thought.

Since adulthood, after realizing that I am being bettered by exploring previously ignored bubbles of conversation, I started trying to search for other interesting bubbles. Now and then I end up stumbling upon a piece of knowledge, quite mundanely, that not just changes me, but reprograms me to the core. This time, I am awed by the magnitude of the personal implications.

I am thoroughly disappointed that instead of getting this subject inculcated to me since childhood, it took me a random lucky search to reach this. Why was I not taught this at home or at school? Why was this never discussed at depth in the mainstream or the bubble I live in? I do not think so; but, was it me being arrogant and keeping this piece at a distance along with its silly neighbors?

I don't know and I don't care about hows and whys.

All I want to do is to add my voice to the existing ones, so that a "me" in some other form, doesn't have to wait 27 years to reach it. Its silly neighbors are straw manned and debated at length giving no space for the "steel man". Maybe the other "me" wouldn't be too arrogant and turn a deaf-ear if they were exposed to the "steel man" instead of the "straw men".

There is an ocean of information on this subject, but not enough voices are talking about it in my bubble. Furthermore, I finally am not afraid of wanting to converse about things that I barely know of.

I will converse here, జ్ఞానాభీష్టము (roughly translates to yearning for knowledge).