tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087502739566584714.post5849990612163461626..comments2023-10-14T22:00:58.392+11:00Comments on Midlife - A Journey: WisdomLozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10513517402604501840noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087502739566584714.post-38598297338547301522007-08-08T02:36:00.000+10:002007-08-08T02:36:00.000+10:00How lovely that you not only wrote in journals tha...How lovely that you not only wrote in journals that many years ago, but that you kept them and are reading and thinking about what you wrote. I threw most of mine away because they embarrassed me. Now I'm sorry for that.kellypeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13266678780105919817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087502739566584714.post-45412044264730148252007-08-07T01:59:00.000+10:002007-08-07T01:59:00.000+10:00When I was younger I thought I knew everything. No...When I was younger I thought I knew everything. Now that I am "older" I am fast learning I don't know anything. <BR/><BR/>You have a wonderful way of expressing such great posts and inspiring deep thoughts for your readers (at least me)<BR/><BR/>Thanks Loz ... this was an excellent post!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087502739566584714.post-69232350901386626952007-08-06T11:28:00.000+10:002007-08-06T11:28:00.000+10:00Pen - I do doubt my wisdom sometimes.josie - I som...Pen - I do doubt my wisdom sometimes.<BR/><BR/>josie - I sometimes think that the clarity of wisdom fluctuates with the tides. But you are right when you say that things are nowhere near as black and white now as they were back then.<BR/><BR/>Amber - that is so right.<BR/><BR/>Steph - you may well be right, true wisdom may only come from the realisation that we don't know everythingLozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10513517402604501840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087502739566584714.post-61522059434077371372007-08-06T04:54:00.000+10:002007-08-06T04:54:00.000+10:00I have reached a greater degree of clarity in term...I have reached a greater degree of clarity in terms of my lack of complete knowledge. Yes, I have life experience under my belt, and have learned some tragic as well as wonderful lessons, but I realize now that ...anything can happen. You can try to base what you believe about a given situation or person on what you have "seen", but life can always sneak up and tap you on the other shoulder when you weren't paying attention. <BR/><BR/>For me, personally, wisdom is the realization that I don't know anywhere near everything, and the understanding that that realization will - hopefully - allow me to continue to learn and evolve. Fingers crossed. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087502739566584714.post-86158238335071721102007-08-06T01:18:00.000+10:002007-08-06T01:18:00.000+10:00I think when we are young we feel invincible and a...I think when we are young we feel invincible and as the years pass our vulnerability and that feeling of invincibility is slowly battered by life and thus there is a change in our outlookAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10719992587281654845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087502739566584714.post-87853937376960215422007-08-05T23:40:00.000+10:002007-08-05T23:40:00.000+10:00Once again, a very thought provoking post! I smile...Once again, a very thought provoking post! I smiled at the ending, as it is so true that we thought we were very wise at 20, with each passing decade we realize how much less clear the answers sometimes are. How I wish I had kept journals for the past 30 years - that's incredible! What a wealth of perspective and someday down the road, a treasure to your children. I too was less tolerant at that age, in some ways rabid in my beliefs. I was quite convinced that life was black and white and there was very little room for gray areas. Now I see more overlapping grays and shades of beautiful color, so perhaps some wisdom comes in realizing that there are many answers and many ways. Am I wiser at 50 than I was at 20, I would like to think so, but I am also more fearful of the future, so life does not necessarily prepare us for growing old.josie2shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15452791371126155173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087502739566584714.post-43549067497502501152007-08-05T23:39:00.000+10:002007-08-05T23:39:00.000+10:00Heh... 1977 was a good year ;o)I have been keeping...Heh... 1977 was a good year ;o)<BR/><BR/>I have been keeping a journal since fall of 1992. Isn't it a rush to go back and read those pages of your own history. I often find things I wrote in there a bit mind-blowing.<BR/><BR/>I also had a really bad Sunday school experience and with the church in general. Perhaps that is why I haven't attended church since I was in boot camp (and I only went then to get out of having to do details). Hell, I wasn't even married in a church.<BR/><BR/>I love your blogs, Loz. You are a really open, very wise man. You might deny that but you are ;o)Penhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14007835767017361390noreply@blogger.com