9 May 2012

When we're younger, we think that because we're "in" on all of the new things that we know everything. The truth is though, that we don't know everything. Wisdom comes with age and you can't really understand anything until you've experienced it firsthand. There are many thoughts about how that is crazy-talk and that you can just read something in a book and it's the same. False. That couldn't be more true. How can you accurately describe the happiness that you feel when you ace the test that you studied all night for, the joy of getting just what you wanted on Christmas, or even the blessed feeling of bringing a child into the world? No one can empathize with you unless they've been there.