Wisdom Favors Age
"Wisdom favors age, although age is no guarantee of wisdom." --Ryan Healy
The longer I live, the more aware I am of how many people are walking around in a state of arrested development. Their bodies continue to age, but their brains are locked up in a state of twenty-something immaturity.
Just because a man appears to be wise doesn't mean he is.
ouch! but true.
I keep trying to get the wisdom part - wish i had my wisdom and the 20 year old bod ... sigh,
~ Diane Clancy
www.dianeclancy.com/blog
Posted by: Diane Clancy | July 05, 2007 at 09:56 AM
No kidding. A (forever) youthful body plus wisdom would be a wonderful thing indeed. :-)
Posted by: Ryan Healy | July 05, 2007 at 10:28 AM
Great insight... too many Americans (and more than a few guys) seem to be less mature mentally and emotionally than they should.
There's a good quote, and I don't know the author: "There are some who are wise... and some are otherwise." I do my best to be in the former, and not the latter category.
Posted by: Brian Ochsner | July 05, 2007 at 07:35 PM
Regarding guys being less mature: I believe it's because they are abdicating responsibility... and society is letting them get away with it.
Posted by: Ryan Healy | July 05, 2007 at 09:18 PM
Very well put Ryan, I know several 40 something men who are in their "mid-life crisis" as we speak.In their mind they are still 18 but their bodies are telling them otherwise.
I pray for the wisdom not to go there...
Posted by: Chad | July 06, 2007 at 11:17 PM