If the root is cracked, the fruit won’t heal, I’ve got to find the roots of the real.

This song was inspired by Square One: The Foundations of Knowledge by Steven Patterson. Chapter one hit me like a wake-up call: if the roots of your worldview are flawed, then no matter how many branches of knowledge you grow, the whole tree is fragile.

Most of us protect our roots at all costs — even if it means guarding illusions we’ve lived in for decades. But what if the bravest thing is to question them? To dig deeper, even when it hurts, and rebuild on something real?