Sep 09, 2010 22:31
I think wisdom would be the ability to discern the choices that will give you the most out of life. I'm not sure if wisdom is also knowing what you want to get out of life. If that's even relevant.
I often find it trivial to make words out of the deeper concepts in life, but I find sometimes I'm really good at it, and if you're very lucky someone may actually get something that you formulate the words to relate.
I'm very glad about where I am in life right now. Perhaps I'm spending more time putting effort into life to collect later the benefits that I hope to take out of it.
People who want to know the meaning of life mean it's purpose, and that's about as applicable as asking what number the universe is.
Words are too infrequently trumped by the concepts that they are intended to relate. Words never succeed in capturing the reality of a situation. There's always some effort required on the part of the recipient. Too often the unspoken disclaimer regarding the inherent invalidity of a description is disregarded. It's all too easy to forget. It's all to easy to forget about the supposed reality these words weave references of.
I've never been good at making my words succinct or concrete. Absolutes seem impossibilities. Everything is an abstraction. Knowledge and definition is a limit of accuracy that's assumed for our own expediency. An expediency that is all too often forgotten for the convenience of the moment. Our opinions and beliefs for which we abuse others for conflicting are pathetic in their irrelevance.