I realized quite some time back that wisdom comes with age. After every 4-5 years, we can feel that our thoughts and opinions of the past were impractical or not correct. After worrying about it for some time, I made peace with it. So it seemed we just had to wait till our hair started turning grey, and then everything will be okay. Finally, with age we shall attain wisdom. But now it seems that even wisdom has degrees. What appears wisdom to us now, may appear childish again after 5 years! So where does this end? May be never!
And if we and our wisdom keep growing and changing, then it would also be true for others. What others tell today may be judged as incorrect by themselves after a few years! The realization is scary. Is everything fluid?
If everything evolves then what we see today is true only for today and may not be so after some time. That makes life confusing for sure. What is the point of doing anything right, when the 'right' could turn 'wrong' just when our way of thinking changes, when we see some new worlds, or when we attain some new version of wisdom?
Is this why they turn to scriptures; which hold truths which have survived centuries of evolutionary thinking? All rivers meet the ocean in the end. May be until we can see the end, we may mistake a 'river' for an 'ocean'.
Sometimes it seems everything changes with time. Sometimes it seems nothing changes fundamentally. Sometimes what we can't understand is called confusing. Sometimes what we do understand is confusing. This life is a puzzle.
- Rahul
And if we and our wisdom keep growing and changing, then it would also be true for others. What others tell today may be judged as incorrect by themselves after a few years! The realization is scary. Is everything fluid?
If everything evolves then what we see today is true only for today and may not be so after some time. That makes life confusing for sure. What is the point of doing anything right, when the 'right' could turn 'wrong' just when our way of thinking changes, when we see some new worlds, or when we attain some new version of wisdom?
Is this why they turn to scriptures; which hold truths which have survived centuries of evolutionary thinking? All rivers meet the ocean in the end. May be until we can see the end, we may mistake a 'river' for an 'ocean'.
Sometimes it seems everything changes with time. Sometimes it seems nothing changes fundamentally. Sometimes what we can't understand is called confusing. Sometimes what we do understand is confusing. This life is a puzzle.
- Rahul
5 comments:
Yes.. True.. Its ever changing, ever evolving, ever dynamic... Puzzle? Cant say.. Difficult to understand? Yes.. But why to understand or solve also.. Just a journey.. Let us take as it comes with the twists n turns.. And live it..
Age gives experience. Now a days people do not give importance but age had definite role.
It's such a treat to read your thoughts Rahul. I can't agree more to what you have nicely put in words. I have been thinking about this from last few days, you have to live your experiences which eventually become your wisdom. Everyone's journey is unique and the difference between right n wrong is very subtle
No Rahul.... its not like this.
Its not that what is right today will become wrong tomorrow. See...
First thing our life circumstances keep changing ,..
Second It also depends how we Perceive the things... Perception may undergo change ...
Third thing is Priorities of life...
Priority keeps changes with time and circumstances. We need to see the things in light id these 3 things.
When a person realizes that he was wrong at an early stage, he may correct himself atthe later stage because never it is late; but what was right earlier will not be right after a lapse of certain time should not be correct because right is always right and wrong is always wrong.
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