May 15, 2025

I wish experience were easier to come by.
All of my greatest snafus are the result of inexperience.
"If I had only known!" are the "famous last words"
of many of us.
And they certainly apply to me.

Which suggests to me that we would benefit from
reading biographies/auto-biographies
and belonging to discussion/therapy groups
where people were speaking "straight from the heart
about the things that matter most."

Can you imagine speaking straight from the heart
about things that matter most in, say, the 5th grade?
Or as a sophomore in high school or college?
Or anywhere, really, throughout in our life?
We can't trust anyone in this matter 
outside of a 12-Step group--
which is why 12-Step groups are necessary. No?

If we could learn from someone else's experience,
it would save us a lot of grief, pain and sorrow,
but places where that can be done are hard to find
during the times in our life when we need it most.

Making The School of Hard Knocks the source
of our most important lessons on the way to here from there
in knowing what's what and what to do about it.

I wonder if grandparents were more truthful
in the early years of the human race.
But even if they were,
they wouldn't have lived long enough
to be much of a help.
And no one listens to grandparents, anyway. No?