The Wise Fool

” The world abounds much more with fools than people of sense”- Don Quixote.
I have read Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, and now that I finished it, I felt ready to tell you what I have learned. It all started with this quote. It just gave me a complete understanding of who I am. You are probably asking how and why, well here is what I came up with.
Don Quixote on the surface is a funny tale of a man and his loyal friend Sancho going on these many quests fighting the good fight against the mortally wrong fools throughout there encounters, but inside of it is a different story a man that is foolish in trying to find the meaning of life or yet the meaning of his life.
Like Don Quixote, I am a reader that falls into the story takes it into my own life adapted certain traits of certain characters that have inspired me, but Don Quixote is much bolder and braver than me. He takes into every surface of his life that it mixes with the false reality that he now lives in.
Back to the quote, let’s break it down.
” The world abounds much more with fools than people of sense.”
Okay, here is my interpretation of what this quote is saying, That the world tries to co-exist with who you are in a way that they will never achieve. For me, this is what I have felt throughout my life. I have looked back on my childhood, and I can see where my problems have lied, and they were mainly because others had a hard time co-existing with a situation that they have never come across, and I happen to be the one with the situation. Being born ill, it was a taboo scenario that never came across their minds, and of course, why would it.
The world nowadays talks about their concern about equality and how we need to feel equal to one another. Still, to me, that defeats the purpose of being different and, most importantly, not celebrating who God created us to be.
What does this have to do with Don Quixote? You may ask, well, he is a character yearning and wanting to find God’s purpose for Him, and in so many times in the story, he is looked at as a fool. Still, in my opinion, he is of sense he is the wise fool because he is looking beyond himself; he is looking for what is in all of us, and that is merely being a child of God.
To me, one of the moving and essential parts in the book is when he is looking over yonder a hill, and he says he sees giants and that he is ready to fight them, but what they are windmills. Still, no matter how many times Sancho, his faithful companion, tells him that they are not giants, Don Quixote continues to see them as giants. Yes, it was pretty hilarious, but for me, it was one of the saddest scenes because it makes me feel that is what we do when it comes to God we make him so many things that He is not we hide behind the fact that we want something so wrong to be this particular thing, but it won’t ever be. We waste so much time in this life worrying if all like us and we are missing the point, it is not a matter of being liked; it is about eternally loving and dying to self is where we can find that Love and peace.
We are not all going to agree or like what other people do or say, but we can love them for who they are. It is about Love not like.
I am at fault for this. I run away from who God made me be because it is not what is liked. People don’t like suffering; they don’t want to see it, so if they can walk away from a situation, they will. Just like Don Quixote, a Rare and Undiagnosed Disease is looked at like something it is not. You see me mostly as a brave young woman that has some issues, but you don’t see a giant you see a windmill; it is the refusal of looking beyond what you are comfortable seeing.
It is foolish not to be wise enough to get a grip that suffering is a part of life and that what ends up happening is that we miss the fruit of joy that comes out of that suffering.
So, honestly, in my opinion, we should be more like Don Quixote and keeping going on our quest for God our pursuit of eternal Love.