Laughorisms
The upside of being a blogger who has just passed a milestone birthday, is that I get to spout some of my vast accumulated wisdom. (After all, this blog is called WisdomEnough.com )
But my accumulated wisdom may only be, as the punsters would say, half-vast. So my foolproof method for acquiring all the valuable insights you’d expect from someone of my advanced age:
I stole them!
My source of wisdom: aphorisms, those time-honored sayings we’ve all memorized by the dozen. (Two is company, three is a crowd! The early bird gets the worm!)
So here is some tongue-in-cheek wisdom, tweaked a bit from my observations these past never-mind-how-many years:
- Two is company, three is an excuse to open some more wine and pass some more chocolate.
- The early bird just gets the later birds annoyed (just ask my sister!)
- Don’t judge a book by the Amazon reviews.
- Fortune favors the one who buys the most raffle tickets.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with “Are we there yet?”
- With age comes license to pretend you’re wise.
I’m sure some of you qualify to add your own insights to those perennial “truths” that we keep running into.
Remember “Too many cooks spoil the broth”… etc?
The advancing years gives all of us the opportunity to accumulate wisdom (or its counterpart!)
Can you share anything that YOU have learned?
6 Comments
Here are two for you:
Don’t judge a person until you walk a mile in their moccasins – then wash them.
If you argue with a fool, there are two fools arguing – and both lose.
Earl, I’d never heard before about washing the moccasins, but I like the idea of not only “not judging” but also of the thoughtfulness of going the extra mile by washing them!
You didn’t steal them cause “There’s nothing new under the sun”. You just became aware of them and decided to share. I like the fool comment from Earl. Here’s one my mother taught me. “Only a fool never changes his (or her) mind”. My mother had many sayings of wisdom. One she used to say that drove me crazy when I was too little to understand it is “Tomorrow never comes”. Thanks for sharing, Pat, and reminding all of us that wisdom is ours when we are ready to accept it.
Mary Kay, thanks for your kind words about awareness and sharing! And it took me a long time to accept that tomorrow never comes. But truth just waits until we get it (or don’t!)
On my walk with Mr. Spock (my dog) this AM, another one occurred to me: ” There are no paths, paths are made by walking”. Dogs instinctively know this cause they don’t go in a straight line, they meander and follow their nose. Our early morning walks in Pioneer Park are his time and I just follow him. Needless to say, we always go a different way. One man commented that I don’t walk my dog, my dog walks me. It’s true!!! And I love it.
Mary Kay, love your Mr. Spock’s nose! You’re so right: paths don’t exist until they are created by walking!