Finding Something to Say... Iron Sharpens Iron

I've debated for a long time about having a blog. At times, I've had one. And then I would stop using it and it would just lay in waste for months at a time. A concern that I have always had concerning blogs is having something to say about something... Admittedly, I call myself a writer and so it's ironic that I would feel and think that I didn't have anything to write about or at least of importance. Nevertheless, I've decided (again) to have a blog and (again) to keep it up - simply because I realized that I do have something to say and hopefully those who choose to read this blog will share with me in the experience and we both will learn from each other. After all iron sharpens iron.

The idea of iron sharpening iron is something that I say a lot - it has a biblical origin. What I realize about the saying is that it carries the understanding that both objects or entities of metal are equal in standing. Now, this equality may not be in stature or status or appearance but in existence as a whole. Iron is iron, the same way that apples are apples, dogs are dogs, and human beings are human beings. We are composed of the same material, same boundlessness, and the same limitations. However, when the same meets the same an exchange occurs and from that exchange growth can takes place. That's what iron sharpens iron  means; two like minded and similar entities, metals (figuratively) coming together, meshing words and ideas to refine each other.

When applied to human beings and words, the sharpening of oneself is an exercise that isn't readily taken on in abundance these days. The days of men and women meeting in bookstores and coffee shops are over, if not extremely uncommon. These meetings were the more modern version of what took place in Kemet, Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Greece when philosophers and thinkers of the day would sit and meet and build on their ideas, thoughts, questions, and experiences. Growth occurred that evolved into enlightenment and that can still occur today - and on a smaller scale it does. I am hoping that I can utilize modernity and technology to facilitate the idea of iron sharpening iron through this blog... That's the plan anyway.