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Understanding is putting the pieces of a jumble of information and experiences and surroundings in a neat, organized, color-coded pattern. If that's what you want it to be. Understanding is also... who knows? It could be filling in the gaps, it could be acknowledging that there will be gaps. The color-coded block could be crumbling into the jumble or erecting itself from chaos. Understanding could be rearranging the pieces of an ordered world to see things from a different perspective. Is understanding the ordered block at all? Is it actually the jumble? Or is it finding the balance between the two extremes-- accepting certain mysteries as forever dark while trying to illuminate others; appreciating some pieces of knowledge as necessarily undefinable while separating others into concrete categories.