Learning through experience

"I travelled with Steve for 19 years, even to Barcelona and there were gunshots outside our hotel," Jack recounted his experience at Clarke Quay.

We acquire deeper wisdom through world lessons than we do through word lessons. World lessons teach through experience. Experience involves the journey. A book can point the way, like a map, but we must still make th journey. Of course, the wisest choice means choosing both.

No matter what we may have learned in books, it is the nature of life that we lose face before we find wisdom, fall to our knees before we look up to the heavens, and face our darkness before we see the light.

Take it from me: the lessons of experience are always positive, even if the experience is not.