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elgan - 2006-03-27 17:42:15
Eventually you stop asking these questions. You learn to look upon your juniors and smile indulgently at their foibles while you feel a certain smugness that you�ve �been there, done that�. Hopefully you overcome the urge to preach and try to change the course of their future with your own experience, or else you get labelled as a fuddy-duddy and a know-it-all, or a dad. You are in the very best position as a writer to observe and use these observations as grist for your inspiration. Just a word of warning, if you still want to appear �cool�, don�t ever let them know that you are superior to them. Give advice if asked, listen empathically if unloaded on, and good luck. �Grow old with me, the best is yet to come.�
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sinnergi - 2006-03-27 18:22:25
first: parenthetical is one of my favorite words. second: i'm finding myself lost in these same questions right now. maybe even though it seems like we never progress when it comes to matters of emotion...maybe it's just that it's more of an eventual process. maybe it's a slower evolution than the rest of, well, everything else inside of us.
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radiogurl - 2006-03-27 18:50:00
Age and wisdom don't automatically walk hand in hand. I've seen some six-year-olds with more wisdom than some fifty-year-olds. The price for that young wisdom was far, far too high. Am I wiser now than when I was younger? More sure of myself? Certainly. But I can't help believing that a lot of that surity, a lot of that wisdom, could as easily be called practice as experience. After all, it's semantics separating the two, not age.
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muppet23 - 2006-03-28 10:31:12
I've only just hit the point where those emotional circles finally break. Where I'm not doing the same damned stupid thing over and over again (not with all things, mind you, but with some). To me, it's like newspaper reporting. No matter what you WANT to say or what you WANT to write, in the end you have to go back to the basics and remember that there has to be a certain structure to gain success. If you're lucky, you get to write an op/ed piece once in awhile or you get your stuff published in a magazine -- you get to go crazy.

I never want to be the person who has grown cold because of my experiences, but I know now that I have to attach a bit of wisdom (hind sight, if you will) to all of the emotions that once got the best of me. Wisdom won't trump emotions; that's a given. I'll never grow up and that's a given, too. But I will work hard every day to keep that basic structure for peace of mind and perhaps that's the wisdom right there. The wisdom I didn't even know I had.

You know how you say a word so many times that it becomes 'foriegn?' I've got to stop saying wisdom...
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