Thought for the Week: “Yesterday I Was Clever…

“…so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ~Rumi

No one can remain young. Although some manage to approximate it by remaining foolish. Sadly, our world encourages such behavior, and it always has. The phrase “live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse” derives from a comment about aristocrats’ children in the 1800s. But the brash pursuit of pleasure over hard-earned wisdom goes back even further (let’s just say Adam and Eve).

Why?

Because pleasure is a pretty little bubble that appears one moment and is gone the next. But wisdom is a vast, sheltering oak that grows slowly and unobserved. It’s the result not just of time (there are plenty of foolish old people), but of circumspection. It is born of patience and humility, and it endures, harboring others in its boughs for generations to come.

So let us look

beyond what we see

to what we will be

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