…..they were young and clever and in their physical prime and were sure they knew a lot, but “a lot” in this instance amounted to what they would be doing years from now–their plans were all laid out neatly before them in straight rows like they were baking loaves of bread–and not in the next moment, a period of time which they actually exercised some minute level of control over. But isn’t that the bare-bones definition of wisdom: Soldiering through life with your eyes and ears vigilantly open at all times…..and then be sufficiently fortunate to emerge unscathed, infinitely “wiser”, on the other end of that figurative tightrope…..??
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