I don’t think I could have written this book if I had gone to school and been conditioned by the way they teach at school, all they do is put a book and pen in front of you and tell you to get on with it, sometimes you might be lucky if the teacher is in a good mood and wants to explain to you how to get the answer, well that’s how it was in my day anyway. Waste of time if you ask me, nobody ever made anything of them self through that kind of teaching, besides it wasn’t learning was it, all I know it was about remembering things and recalling them back to teacher. We did not learn a thing. So how the hell did they expect you to go out in to the world and succeed with a mind full of their quotes and ill advised information, because what we took as being right then is all wrong now. I mean the education system as not learned it self after all these years of learning on how to best educate the children of today because they are always arguing its all wrong. What’s the point?
I can honestly say I don’t know how I came by my insight and dare I say it little wisdom that I have. Because as a child I was never at school. I was a wayward boy and caused a lot of trouble for my mother, they give it a name today don’t they. Attention deficit thingy or something, any how I must have had it because I could never stay in school, I would run out and stay in town all day or hide some where till home time. I was to abscond from school like this till I was sixteen. Never really made any attendance at all. So much so nobody knew me when I did go to school, for a day. That is if I could stay in for a day and not half.
I remember now where I learned my wisdom, yes, my mother used to tell me fables,
Some of Solomon’s wise sayings and also Aesop’s fables, a fable is a story with a hidden message that can cleverly or pictorially describe a situation or an event.
By listening to these fables I was able to use them in the real world and take a good look at what was happening around me. Even in today’s society you can get a picture of what’s going on the in the world just by sitting back and watching.
When you do see the ugliness the worlds gotten it in to then you begins to wonder why? And maybe how to make it better?
I don’t want to do that, that’s not my job, all I can say if we just learn from the past and use it to show us a better future then maybe things will get better?
But learning isn’t just remembering what happened, it’s about getting insight to what happened so you see a bigger picture and a more clear description of what went wrong. That is learning to identify a mistake and not just relying on a memory to fix any future problems from recall.
This is what wisdom is, when we understand what went wrong in any given situation, we can use that understanding to make wrong right.
I said I read of lot of Aesop’s fables, well by reading these stories I believe they have had a very important impact on my life, and showed me ways of getting out trouble when I have been confused and had no idea what to do in lots of situations.
I am just glad that I had this tool to help me when I needed it.
Its not just Aesop's fables and king Solomon’s wise sayings that make you see things clearer, I think you need a little help from somewhere else, people say we have this enlightened awareness hidden some where in our minds, and that if we can get to or open it some how it can show us a truer or more logical reasoning than we already have. Since our minds are blind to what’s really going on out in the world by way of blinding it with our desires, and wants, that’s why we concentrate to much on succeeding and making things better for ourselves instead of thinking about others who’s needs are greater. It’s this selfishness I think that stops us knowing anything about our hidden abilities in our mind.
I just know one time when I needed a little comfort I took some amphetamines or speed if you know it by that name, that my whole mind opened up completely.
