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Giving is Receiving

December 28, 2012
By Olivia Kapell SILVER, New York, New York
Olivia Kapell SILVER, New York, New York
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An answer is no such thing without a
question in pre-text
An answer has no meaning if there is not
something to respond to
Answers are not synonymous to periods,
Answers act as a semi-colon, a comma
a gateway to yet another question
If the beholder received one answer
and only one answer
it would have no significance
for there would be nothing to follow
Yes, answers are important
filling the beholder with knowledge
experience , confidence
However there is a point at which the
beholder needs to give as well as receive

Asking a question is planting a seed
in the beholder’s own mind
or even better: another’s mind
The trade and growth of knowledge is
not through answers
but through the expansion of the
unknown
the development of potential; what could be
and the soon-to-be-answers
and consequentially, soon to be questions

Learning is through receiving
Understanding is through giving
Giving is through compassion
The questioner does not give to the beholder
to help himself
but rather to bless the beholder
A blessing of new knowledge
So the beholder can become the next giver



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