We have all heard the analogy. The frog is inserted into temperate water and the temperature ever so slowly raised until it reaches a boiling point upon which the frog is cooked.
Life can be like that for many of us as we begin with more carefree innocence and eventually end up with fatigue after getting off the hamster wheel. We were like the dog chasing its tail and realized later we shouldn't have been. Having learned lessons about the futility of following society down the wrong avenues, we are able to see the entire playing field with a perspective we couldn't possess in our youth.
What I see today in the world is much irrationality, malice, greed and stupidity and yet I find many islands of goodness and rejoice in my ability to quickly recognize their value. I don't need to exert as much wasted energy getting to the grain of truth hidden underneath any subject. If we have reflected all our lives the work pays off and the X-ray vision begins to work spectacularly well.
George Bernard Shaw said that youth is wasted on the young but I disagree only in that the battle must be waged and the scars acquired in order to grow into wisdom. Without the struggle we can be doomed to mediocrity and fail in our appreciation of how most often it is the simplest things in life which bring us the most joy.
Hopefully we learn all those lessons before we reach that critical boiling point.
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