Wisdom comes with the experiences of life …It’s your life: live it, love it & celebrate it!….Covid -19 has only disappointments in life… part 174

There is no link between wisdom and age. But not everybody learn from their experiences. Learning is also not sufficient. You need to implement those lessons to make things better than before. Even there are some who starts to follow the wrong directions after few experiences in life.

With age comes experience. From experience it is possible to learn things if you think about your experiences and consider what went right and what went wrong. Lots of people do not think critically, they only react emotionally.

In that case you may not gain wisdom. There are both a lot of wise older people and a lot of ignorant older people.

A lot of older people are afraid of change. They are afraid of losing what they have- their health, their money, their security. But life requires change and you have to deal with change constantly throughout your life. Wisdom requires dealing with change so it works best for you, those around you, and the world in general.

A lot of the problems in the world today come from people's lack of wisdom and fear of change.

So I would say with age comes a chance for wisdom but it is not automatic. The American president Trump is getting old. Does he sound wise to you? Is he making wise decisions or emotional ones?

With age comes experience, and experience means knowledge. However mere knowledge is not wisdom because knowledge is always incomplete, fragmented, and partial. Wisdom is not partial. It is not something that is true for only a select few, which means it is something for everybody.

That means wisdom has an impartial, complete, and therefore unregimented nature about it. That which is fragmented is whole.

Therefore wisdom is a wholeness. It is a completeness that has nothing to do with knowledge or experience. As a result it has nothing to do with age, and therefore it is something that has no relationship with time. Age implies time.

That means wisdom has a timeless quality about it. Therefore wisdom is not only timeless, whole, and complete, but it is something this anyone can come upon instantly, right here, right now.

With age comes a better understanding of what’s important in life and with that better understanding comes wisdom: When we’re younger we tend to be guided by societal and cultural norms. 

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Thank you …Society tells us what’s important. 

As we age, we become less concerned with the dictates of society and more concerned with what’s really important to us. 

We learn through loss that nothing last forever and the only thing we really own is our souls.

We’re not as concerned with the past or the future.

We learn to live in the moment.

Living in the moment allows us to extract all of the love and the beauty from the moment.

We learn to focus on what we have and not what we don’t have.

We learn that the secret to having it all is the knowledge that you already do. Experience is the great teacher! There’s true wisdom in knowing what are the important things in life. 

Living longer and experiencing more can help, but these alone do not guarantee wisdom. What really counts is having an open, observing mind. Those with strong beliefs, black and white opinions and ideological realities are the least wise because they don’t see things for what they are nor do they comprehend how grey, how variable, how random existence really is.

While the assumption is typically that older individuals are wiser, some not only never really learn much about life but become fixated on how much “better” the past was in a variety of ways that says far more about them than it does about reality—the past is gone and the present will soon follow. There are young people who are old souls in that they are already open to how things actually are, not how they want or pretend them to be.

I emphasize pragmatism and moderation to others because these are paths to functional wisdom. Age then adds to the depth of that wisdom.

Want to add word or two?

You no longer try to win arguments with intimidation. You have actually been on both sides of the argument, so you do understand what your opposition is talking about. You know that in a lot of cases, the argument does not matter because argument change very little; and when there is change, it’s more a movement than a revolution and often comes about because of unexpected, outside forces.

So the wisdom that comes is to speak your truth softly, practice what you preach and allow others to live there life, support them in what you agree with, decline involvement with what you don’t agree. Learn, seek to understand and be gentle.

All we gain is proficiency in handling life situations. That's certainly not wisdom.

Even if you keep a Monkey in harsh conditions it will adapt, learn to handle those conditions and become ‘WISE’! But will you consider it WISDOM? It is naturally tendency of living species to learn, adapt and adjust. It is theory of EVOLUTION.

Wisdom comes from evolving consciously. It will happen only through developing understanding and expanding our perspective to forego the limitations of physicality. It is a conscious choice to be WISE and it won't come along with Age.

Your comment ….? 

Wisdom comes from being open to what life brings to you, accepting it, studying its effects on you, and learning how to either employ that experience in such a way as to benefit you and others, or how to avoid repeating it. In that respect, a five-year old can be wise.

I’ve known many people in their teens and twenties who were far wiser than people two and three times their age. And I personally know some people in their seventies and eighties who are dumber than dirt. If you seek wisdom, pay attention.

Question everything. Accept nothing at face value. Study the lives and writings of people acknowledged to be wise…Ghandi, Martin Luther King, the Buddha, Lao Tse (writer of the Tao Te Ching), the Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Tich Nhat Hanh, the Dalai Lama.

At the very least, pay close attention to people whom you consider to “have it together”. What do they do that is different from the population at large? How do they respond to difficulties? Talk to them. Ask them questions. And above all, always keep an open mind.

Its neither age nor experience. Wisdom comes from ones willingness to accept and learn. I have seen some 17year olds wiser than a 74year old. Weirdly all the old people I know love starting fights in between family members using past, where is wisdom in that? So definitely not the age. And this thing is very repetitive, so even experience is not the one that helps. Because without learning a lesson from an experience, the experience is of no use.