Before pushing someone too hard

Sometimes people do it for fun, sometimes out of ego or other strong emotions. They push a person till he surrenders.

 

When we are in the superior position we tend to forget about the cat, the cat always try to escape injury. It uses all its skill to run away but they say that a cornered cat reminds one of its wild sister, tigress.

 

In our jest or ego we ignore the feeling of others, and sometimes they surprise us by striking back with the vehemence of the cat, or worse, the deadly vehemence of a threatened snake.

 

That is why wise people don’t try the patience of others. They never push someone to corner. They let others decide what they want to do or should do.

Age and wisdom

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired….. Titus Maccius Plautus

 

Wisdom has nothing to do with age. I have seen senior citizens innocent as small babes and young men and women as wise as sage. Just think, all the prophets of human history have gained immense wisdom before reaching maturity.

 

How much wisdom a person will be able to soak depends on his capacity. Some people soak wisdom by instinct. It appears as if they become wise by just being. They don’t need to study hard, they just read all the things we read and simply squeeze out the wisdom out of that. Have seen so many of them that I know its true about some people. They are just wise.

 

No one looks at their black hair, they just listen to them when they speak and realize that they are speaking the facts of life. They are uttering the greatest words of wisdom with the ease of a seventy year old weather ripe person.

Reading

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

            -- John Witherspoon

 

It took me years to learn this word of wisdom. When I was growing up I used to believe that if I start doing a thing I should finish it.

 

I have read so many horrible books and seen so many horrible movies just because I started them. Then I realized with maturity that the thinking should be done before starting. And if in the midway I realize that I am wasting my time on a thing then its perfectly alright to put it down after a through analysis of .the results and consequences.

 

I believe that its foolishness to continue in a road just because I started to walk in it, knowing all the time that it leads me nowhere or away from my destination.

 

Sometimes we realize our mistakes a little late, we should stop it then and there in place of furthering it.