Wisdom

Wisdom comes with age. How true that is.  I know I am much wiser than I was when I was 25, but I still don't know it all.  Even now I am still learning about life and the lessons are not always easy.  It makes me humble I suppose and although I am still learning I do have some wisdom to share with those who ask. 


Does the learning ever stop?  I don't think so.  I am of the belief that we choose the lessons we want to learn before we even begin life.  I must have had a very long list and I didn't go for the easy ones.  Still what I have found is that sometimes those bumps on our pathway are not as difficult to overcome as we imagine they will be.  I think what throws me at first is that some of the things I have encountered in my life I never expected to happen to me.  Now I know most people think this, but how come I meet people who seemed to have had a smooth pathway in life and have never had to struggle or overcome tragedy?  What makes them so different? Is it their attitude to life for a start?


In some ways I am glad for life's experiences.  After all that is where much of my wisdom has come from and perhaps it is my privilege to be able to share that with those that wish to ask my advice.  Does it make me an expert on life?  Hell no.  I wish someone had slipped me the manual years ago.  So what to do?  Live each day as it comes and learn by your mistakes. I have noticed if you don't learn the first time the next time is even harder.  Yes the experience will repeat itself until you are sensible enough to take notice and wise up. No matter what life puts in front of us even with bad or sad experiences there is always a silver lining.  We just have to learn to look for it.