Growing on the Inside

"Falsehood is never in words; it is in things." (Page 62) This is waht Marco states while decribing a city, and it makes a lot of sense. How can you know that something is false only by words? What actually proves something are actions that you take. Besides, the words are based on things, hence falsehood or truth have to be in things. The basis of anything; a thought, a commentary, an action, or anything is based on a thing. The complete basis is a thing.

When describing Trading Cities 3, Marco says something that is very impacting in every sense. He states that this city changes to repeat itself. Just that the protagonist of each story or situation changes. So for example when I get tired or find something weird in my life, I change to someone else's life and someone else changes into mine. It's ike a rotation exchanging lives. In a way this is true. There are people with very similar stories that happen a different times. It is like a recreation of someone else's life. Something as "simple" as marriage happens in many lives. Every time someone gets married in a way it is recreating another person's situation. Something like that. Sounds kind of crazy, but I somehow make sense of it haha. So, is something in the end really original? Is your life really different if you think about it? In the end everything is a recreation. Everything has happened before, it just has different actors. Just like a game. That city as that he describes is a bit crude, and what I am stating in this blog is also a bit crude, because you could argue that you have to live the moment, that there are new things, etc. And it is also valid, well what you live is your life and no one will have it the same way. But in a general sense you see where I am getting with all of this.

Last thing of these two sections (5 and 6) that made an impression in me was when the Khan says something about the fact that his empire is growing too much towards the exterior and not growing within itself. Just like a person. One can take this statement in two ways. One, the Khan could be saying that know his area of knowledge is too broad. That he went over a lot of territory without going too deep into anything so he has like an overall of everything but doesn't have a good specialization in any of those. I personally believe that it is better to be extremely good at one thing than being okay in many. You just have to find that one thing for you and make the best out of it. So maybe he says that he has too much knowledge about everything but about one single thing he cannot go in deep. His knowledge is too shallow. Or two, which has to do with the mind and the heart. Maybe he says that it is also important to know yourself before worrying about the eterior. Maybe he is trying to say that you first have to know yourself and judge yourself to go to the outer world and be who you are. NOt letting stupid thing change you. Of course you will change, but you have clear who you are. Like getting to know what you like, your feelings, and then taking advantage of your good areas to make the best out of them and out of yourself to help yourself and the outer world too. Grow within yourself.