How to Link Wisdom and Ageing

 

There are some things that you can learn only if you've lived long enough. There's just one problem; all the lessons seem to have been taken: there really is nothing new under the sun. I found this out when I thought I'd check the originality of my selections. When I went online I found pages and pages of quotes related to wisdom of ageing. No doubt you, too, will have your favourite/s.
My five-favourites that ageing has taught me are as follows. (I hope that none of these gems have been spoken for.)

1. Privacy is precious.
2. Anonymity has much to recommend it.
3. We tolerate others when we know we won't be dealing with them for too long.
4. Just because everybody's doing it, doesn't necessarily mean that it's right.
5. What others say about me is none of my business.

Then there's Robert Frost who summed-up what he learned about life in three words - it goes on. And Cicero, who said a couple of thousand years ago: 'While there's life, there's hope'. Proverbs, too, often contain great messages. For example, 'Live and let live' (Dutch) and: 'A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book' (Irish) are spot-on. And let's not forget, William James' recommendation to, 'Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact'. And then there's poor old Epictetus, whose words of wisdom have been plagiarised throughout the ages. He said, 'We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them'.

The focus on growing old seems to interest those who no longer feel bulletproof. Age brings with it the need to remain positive. Mohammed Ali's, 'Age is whatever you think it is. You are old if you think you are' is a favourite of mine, or perhaps you prefer Mae West's, 'You're never too old to become younger'. Too bad if Tom Wilson was right when he observed, 'Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself'.

It took a dose of Christmas shopping for me to see the way people were using their mobile phones. Albert Einstein must have had a vision when he said, 'I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots'.

 

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