Supersede

12 May 2025

A joy of life is the realisation or reminder of the amount I still don't know, seek to know, never know, or may ever know in the application of my learnt knowledge across a lifetime.

Yesterday, a doctor prescribed me using a medicalised term: supersede.
I didn't know the word, but once understanding its definition, I've proceeded to now see it used in a multitude of places.

Over the course of a few short days:

• A doctor friend stated it during a murder mystery dinner.
• It came up in the dialogue of a video game.
• I caught it uttered by the passing of a stranger in the middle of the street.

Each application stuck out like the pain of a sore thumb. Without another’s empathy - only I can feel it.

While the example is only a word, it sticks out with the illuminated bias of my own recent learning.

I'm simply noticing the world around me with the lens of knowledge I hold — and only hold.

That which is unknown, while physically present, is invisible to the beholder of knowing.

We are blinded by that which we are unable to see.

Being aware of potential that expands further than what is shown to be your version of truth brings a joyful human questioning of another’s experience.

What is my purpose / what is the point:

• To seek to eternally know more is a joy that’s enough.
• Every other has something known that I do not.
• It's my duty to learn more.
• They don't owe me their story.
• I can only seek it.