WISDOM: Questions and Suggestions

Wisdom isn’t a list of facts that perhaps you know.
Facts in and of themselves don’t cut it.

What’s important to understand is how facts relate and why?
What measures have been applied, the results checked out:
whether good or bad.

Nothing is more contested than that.

Nor is laughing ever enough. You must freely cry,
understanding that hating is not an excuse for denying.

Rights are sometimes wrong.

You must sometimes accept blame not your own,
give unearned and unwanted forgiveness
to avoid worse costs.

Learn both to laugh deeply and freely cry.
Set free regret
and accept a sense of wonder at what “just is.

Learn that life requires patience,
that joy may sometimes come by letting go.
Such may be the secret of healing.

Pain is all you get by hanging on to hurts
while wasting your dwindling future.
Accept the trite, but look forward to the new and different.

Assign no blame. Blaming does no good in the end
And can rebound.

Kindness is the sensible approach.

Stick to beginnings.  Accept the need to do over.  Freely ask forgiveness.
School yourself in sardonic humor,
especially that directed to yourself.

It is less important when and where you got on
than when and where you get off…
and the reasons why.

To everything there are changes: time, weather, luck.
Planning may be the best protection
and adjustment the best solution.

Concern for yourself is basic to most asked questions,
by may misdirect attention from what 
you most need to know.

Before you risk, check the odds for successful outcome,
likely costs involved.
Balancing is always the issue, not what most you want.

The question proposed at the end of life is: Was it worth it?
Before you can answer this question.
you must identify the values by which you measure.

What were your goals?
Whom and what else was affected? How and in what way?
did any of this give or take your pleasure?

Is there anything you would want to do over
should you live again?  And why?