Difference between Knowledge and Wisdom

A simple story of how a boy answer a beautiful yet tricky question that what is the difference between knowledge and wisdom

She asked me a very difficult question. A question that made me to ponder over to all new level of thinking. Yes the question was tricky and yes there was not a proper answer which can fill the craters created. A question which when asked to even most knowledgeable and intelligent required him an erudition to say few words. She just asked me that what's the difference between knowledge and wisdom. I was stuck and a void surrounded me. I was craving for a thought like someone just erased all my knowledge and common sense and I was standing there clueless. I said give me some time to ponder over the depth of this question. Yes I was embarrassed. She smiled. She knew my difficulty. I waved her goodbye and promised her to give a reliable answer for it. I went back home sitting clueless as what to say. So what is the connecting term between these two which differentiated them. Might be ego. I was getting something. It triggered my mind. Yes the knowledge that lacks ego is wisdom. I was happy. I called her and told the answer. She said it was my illusory correlation and ego has nothing to do with these two. I was confused and little bit irated and pretty sure that she is wrong. All that knowledge and wisdom was differentiated was due to ego. Ego makes a person blind. It doesn't matter how knowledgeable you are but this demon destroys everything. May be the devilry of ego just surrounds over the fence of knowledge and blocking the other sources of it and thereby hinders the further extension of that fence. She denied softly and said to think again. After few hours of thinking and extending it to other dimensions of my erudition I came up with another consolidating reply. I called her again and within no time she responded as if she eagerly waited for that. With undefined level of enthusiasm I said It's humility. Yes the knowledge sometimes gives you a sense of pride but humility makes it wisdom. You can't hold wisdom and pride together. Humble people are man of wisdom. She smiled again and contradicted my answer just by a single reply. I lost my patience and a feeling of yelling at her surrounded the atmosphere as it was like pre decided by Almighty and all the constellation were pointing towards the upcoming storms which was about to fall upon her. I consoled myself and disconnected the call. No more thoughts wanted to sneak in my brain. My brain's unwelcoming behaviour might have filled the thoughts with all new level of fear so they don't wanted to show up. May be my hypothalamus just wanted to go out of order for sometime. With the muddled feeling of anger and embarrassment I called her again. Ok I lose so what is the correct answer. This time she smiled once again and this smile was now turning into a slow laughter. She said she don't know the answer and who even cares what's the difference between them. It was just a pre planned plot to make a conversation. I was quiet. Silence took the responsibility of the situation.

Author's Note

Please any type of suggestion is accepted including grammar problems.

Reviews

[Schatzi]

Hello Anurag Tiwari,

There are a few sentences with awkward wording but I don't necessarily think you should change this, especially where the guy is answering the girl. It somehow makes him sound more wise, at least to me it does. Other than that though, you may want to reword some of your sentences so they are less awkward. Some readers may find this distracting and not enjoy your story as much.

It is a good topic and I like the way you have written it into the story. If I may offer one other suggestion, it would be to break your story into paragraph form. You currently one one huge block of a story when there should be at least eight paragraphs or more there. Utilizing paragraphs will allow your reader to absorb the story better. Longer paragraphs make it more difficult to do this. Just a thought . . .

Thank you for sharing!

Kind regards,

Schatzi