Fear Not...
I Have No Wish To Try And Glorify or Justify My life, I'm Merely Reporting: I'm Now 73 Years Old, I Think I've Learned Much In That Time... However I've Not Learned Anything By Doing "IT" Right, All My Lessons Have Come From Doing "IT" Wrong, What a Shame To Be Driven By "Self Will Run Riot"... The Last 37 Years Have Been Better (Not Perfect!) Than The First 35 Years... Don D.
One Cannot Have Wisdom Without Living Life. ---- Dorothy McCall
Living life means responding, wholly, to our joys and our pitfalls. It means not avoiding the experiences or activities that we fear we can't handle. Only through our survival of them do we come to know who we really are; we come to understand the strength available to us at every moment. And that is wisdom.
When we approach life tentatively, we reap only a portion of its gifts. It's like watching a movie in black and white that's supposed to be in Technicolor. Our lives are in color, but we must have the courage to let the colors emerge, to feel them, absorb them, & then be changed by them. Within these depths, we find our true selves. And so the complexities of life teach us wisdom. And becoming wise eases some of the many pitfalls in our path.
Living life is much more than just being alive. I can choose to jump in with both feet. Wisdom awaits me at the depths of my plunge.
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