LUVIN ME

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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Out of the Mouth of Babes...

I had a good session with my teen girls yesterday. Sometimes I think they teach me more than I teach them...


Why do people think that the older you get, the wiser you become? That is definitely not the truth because I know too many old fools that have proven this theory wrong time and time again. I think that wisdom comes with experience. There are a lot of wise youngsters out there.

A fools learns from his mistakes, but a wise man learns from someone else's mistakes....

So what do you think?

posted by LUVIN ME @ 7:35 AM  

9 Comments:

  • At 9:21 AM, Blogger Ladynay said…

    I think people say that because as you get older you experience more, at least logically it works that way. But your right wisdom comes from experience. Some just haven't used the time on the earth to experience and learn things like they should....

     

  • At 9:27 AM, Blogger LUVIN ME said…

    @southern gal...Some people just don't use their heads...

    @ladynay...sadly enough, some may never learn...

     

  • At 10:48 AM, Blogger TTD said…

    i agree.. i dont think age matters.. only experience.. i like that little quote you got there!

     

  • At 10:58 AM, Blogger Freaky Deaky said…

    Why do people think that the older you get, the wiser you become?

    I think in some ways because they hopefully have become wiser. Like most things it's all relative. I'd like to think that I was wiser at 21 then I was at 16 and that I'm wiser now then I was say five years ago. I think a lot of people are like that. You have to take into consideration that even having a little wisdom makes someone wiser than one who has none.

    I guess I'm a fool then because I prefer to make and learn from my own mistakes. Some things really can't be learned by just sitting on the sidelines and watching. In a lot of literature the fool was quite often the wisest person. Which begs the question who's the bigger fool, the one everybody thinks has no wisdom or the people that think they're wise?

     

  • At 11:17 AM, Blogger LUVIN ME said…

    @freaky...Only a wise man knows his own wisdom. By that I mean, we really can't judge another person's wisdom...Only you know what you posess...

    By saying that a wise man learns from another person's mistakes I mean...(hypothetically)

    If a child is raised in a household where there is only parent present, and that parent had to struggle to raise the child, that child knows what it means to struggle...

    or

    If a man is swiming in the ocean and is bit by a shark, it is not likely that you would want to swim in the same place...

     

  • At 11:21 AM, Blogger Nika Laqui said…

    This is true, you can learn something from everyone, young, old, even fools...

    But yes, experience is a great teacher!

     

  • At 11:31 AM, Blogger LUVIN ME said…

    @nsane...My experiences make me what I am today. Although some were very hard to handle, I wouldn't trade the world for them...

     

  • At 12:03 AM, Blogger TrinaBeingTrina said…

    I can definitely say that I am the wise man who learns from other people's mistakes.

     

  • At 6:42 AM, Blogger LUVIN ME said…

    @trina...I try my best to watch, listen a, and learn, but I always seen to get myself in a mess!

     

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