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Learning from the Darkness of Life
There is no true understanding in life without experience
There is no understanding in life without experience. Knowing, or thinking you know, is not the same as feeling it happen to you. Failure, pain, defeat, loss are the only true teachers in life.
You consol a friend who just sat for days watching a loved one die, yes, yes, I know how you feel you mumble. But you don’t know unless you too experienced a loss that has deeply hurt you, forcing you to shed some old skin and grow again. Yet, it is always the ones who have done nothing, gone nowhere, don’t read and don’t think who are the first to tell you how you should feel.
The aged ones in our society were once revered as the wise amongst us. Their collected wisdom earned by pain, tattooed upon their old souls by a universe intent upon teaching a lesson never to be forgotten.
Their wisdom provided structure, a path forward, a way for the rest of us to grow without repeating much of what they suffered to learn, mentors if we only would allow them to teach us… but all trust in the ones older than us has been lost. Even those just slightly ahead of you are not trusted, not believed. What could they know of my life, they aren’t me, I am special and no one can understand how I am so different?
