What does it mean to be wise?
Having a great knowledge of the most important aspects of life due to experience, maybe?
Could a young person with not much life experience have a wise mind?
Are age and experience factors of being wise, or can you just know most things intuitively?
I hate these questions because even a person considered wise would have difficulty answering them, or possibly even answer these questions with another question, because there isn't really an answer...
I don't understand the reason why wise men are often so relaxed and at peace with the world. You'd think someone who knew so much about life and making correct judgments all the time wouldn't be able to sleep knowing how much crap happens... And how we have the power to stop poverty and all that... but we don't... Yet we say these very things, and often don't make a stand just because it's easier to sit and critisise.
Maybe they understand these things better than I think they do.
Maybe they know that there's not a thing they can do until that time when everyone wisens up to the things they have to say, and actually start thinking about other people for a change.
Maybe the wise man believes that there's no point in letting these things become anything more than an internal confliction of emotion, because showing these feelings and thoughts won't do a thing either. So in reality, it's better just to silently judge the world for being so sh*t, rather than actually participate in making it even more so.
Maybe the wise man is happy, because he's figured this out, and he can sit back and watch this world crumble, without being open to criticism when he fails to stop it...
Here's my summary quote in case you find anything at all worth drawing from my blog,
"Maybe the wise man is placid because he knows any internal confliction of emotion won't change the world, so when he watches it crumble, he is not open to criticism because he has not participated."
Joseph Baggaley
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