A thought on writing.

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One of those famous folks once said, (paraphrased of course) that if you can't boil down a complex idea into it's simplest analogy, then you don't have a good grasp of the idea.
What's left unsaid is the high degree of earned insight or intelligence to confront the complex idea in its true unfiltered form and go on a path of discovery to distill it into common parlance. It takes a uniquely talented mind to be able to climb to the top limb of the tree and pluck the highest fruit of insight they can reach and then bring it back down and hand that hard work to a passerby so they can taste the fruit without the effort of reaching it.
In some ways, it is our nature and perhaps our duty to do this. For the many who find the fruit disagreeable, there are some who enjoy it. For those who enjoy it, there are fewer still who want to know where the fruit came from and fewer still who want to go get it themselves... In search of a taller tree, a higher limb to climb, to see what undiscovered fruits may yet exist. 
We collect the trophies for the masses, to encourage the few who will one day reach higher than we could ever have climbed on our own.

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