Fools Rush In

When does wisdom become important? For life is a never-ending journey of lessons. There is so much to learn from experience, people, animals you name it.

Apart from the title being a Dean Martin classic, it is one of my favorite sayings. The song begins with the quote "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread", and so he confesses his love to a special someone and shares with us the listener the danger of this approach. Brave new world. I think. Every person is like an island, and we sailors who go out to meet people are the brave.

A lot can be learned through being a fool. Trial and error. Experiencing the unknown. What will happen ultimately is the gamble of life. The great adrenaline created when we rush in.

I will go ahead and share that personally; my mind remembers negative experiences more vividly than positive experiences. And given this tendency, naturally, I find that my mind can be quite pessimistic of how things might go. All the more reason to go ahead and prove my mind wrong. It thinks and expects but most expectation and thinking are met with the opposite or adjacent, thus the nature of life itself.

Only by being the fool will life ever reveal itself to you. The wise man may spend an entire life searching for the well of wisdom, infinite knowledge, and never find it. He is a fool for it. Like a good woman, I think wisdom will only come when you are not searching for it.

The fool however, with no exact intention, pure in a sense, will definitely receive something valuable -- experience.

Priceless.