The Great Escape

Wisdom isn't just the painful teeth growing at the backs of our mouths, tearing through the gums, sometimes causing damage and often creating an ache that is hard to heal.

I used to think that along with this process, would come reflective thoughts about the amount of wisdom you had gained from life so far... the truth is, the teeth can come at any age, but we learn as soon as we are ready too.

We learn through the lessons we get from our parents and through education, going on to make our own choices and shape our lives. It is through this process, with or without the teeth, that the true wisdom begins to show through.

Apparently you should never make the same mistake again. There is a lesson to be learnt in every error, but just because we try not to and don't succeed, doesn't always mean we're the fool. If all this knowledge and insight broke through pain free, life would be too easy... we'd never get the butterfly's, we'd never see the difference, we'd never learn.

Sometimes we get it wrong, sometimes we give it another go and get it wrong again, but I think I'd rather keep trying than give up completely. You don't need to be an old wise man or a boy learning lessons from life. Sometimes you don't need to go far and sometimes you just need to escape to the ends of the earth and re-charge.

I have come to realise, to see the bigger picture you sometimes need to step out of the frame.

Wisdom can be painful, luckily we're all in it together. We all grow, we all learn, we all have challenges and we all have set-backs... for everything else, there's always Bonjeela.