Permanent flowIt is said that every great journey begins with a step. This is not true. A more precise saying would be: "every great journey begins with the idea of ​​the journey", thus leading to the idea of ​​the step, and so on. Steps will surely follow an idea, but nevertheless ideas will always precede any action. Once you have an idea in your head, you must either forget it or act on it. This is the case of the first philosophers, known today as the pre-Socratics. The Pre-Socratics, beginning around 600 BCE, formed the idea of ​​a journey toward enlightenment in their society. Instead of rejecting this idea, they thrived and took the first steps toward teaching a whole new way of thinking. These early thinkers of philosophy, which has a meaning appropriate to the love of wisdom, wanted to know more about life, the earth, the stars and, most importantly, the "being" of it all. Heraclitus of Ephesus, who was not the first of the original thinkers, was part of this group of wisdom lovers and revolutionized the world with his idea of ​​"being" and allowed humanity to follow his traces. The Pre-Socratics are known for creating philosophy. by seeking a rational order for their world and their being. Before philosophers, man simply accepted mythological stories and supernatural concepts. Philosophers, however, approached questions by observing their surroundings. This was the world they could touch and feel, making it an ideal basis for their notebooks. The early pre-Socratics looked at the natural world and assumed that the “elements” that made all things “exist” came from the natural environment around them. For example, thanks to an initial scientific and rational approach, the pre-Socratics took the four elements of the world as they knew them (water, air, earth and fire) and studied them. Some inferred that water was the “stuff,” while others looked to air or earth to answer their zealous questions about being. Heraclitus, for his part, found unity in all the elements and linked “being” to “fire”. His reference to fire, however, is purely metaphorical. While his predecessors focused on the actual elements which they considered to be the "elements" that constituted the existence of being, Heraclitus focused solely on fire to demonstrate his metaphysical concept of constant flux. Heraclitus is known to have said: "There is nothing permanent except change..