Wisdom

Wisdom is something that is lacking in this day and age. People get so focused on an education, which is not a bad thing in any way, shape, or form. I just believe that education can only get you so far. Wisdom is valuable and if you are wise, you will be successful in life. Wisdom is the knowledge through experience. The older population has the most wisdom because they have obviously been through the most out of anyone living. You cannot go to school to learn how to possess wisdom, it cannot be taught. If you go to college, you will not take a class on wisdom. You cannot test someone on wisdom, it is something that comes with experience. As you live through your life and experience problems and hardships, wisdom will come along as well. It may not be wisdom through a good time in life, it may be a tragedy, but you will still gain wisdom and learn from your mistakes. I think that if you are wise, then you can give extremely good and valuable advice. Parents are usually wise. This is why kids always go to their parents for advice, not just because they are their parents, because they have most likely been through the same problems. There are too many people growing up in this country that lack common knowledge or wisdom. I think that my parents are wise and my grandparents. No surprise there that they are all over 40 years old. You gain wisdom over the years of your life, the older you get: the more wisdom you have. I always go to them whenever I am in a rough patch or if I am doing good. They tell me what they would do in my shoes, and it is usually something good. They give me advice and think of what would be best for me and would better my life. I feel strongly that if you are wise, you are going to be older. I do not know any kids that are full of wisdom. They have not seen much of the world. Wisdom can come with traveling as well. You can see what other people's living situations are like. You would get to feel their everyday struggle. Once you see that there are definitely people out there who have it worse than you; you learn to not take so many things in your life for granted. Right there, you gain wisdom by realizing that you have it good. People in today's society should try to achieve a certain level of wisdom, it should be something to be striven for. I know that as I grow throughout my life, I will be very wise and make the best of any situation I am in. I have seen a lot of things that some people have not seen and it makes me even more wise. I know that what I have in life is wonderful and there are people who wish they were in my situation. I am grateful for everything in my life at the moment.