I just read something that I simultaneously liked and found annoying:

"You don't know what you don't know when you're young. How could you? People who are older nod sagely and say you'll learn - about love, about marriage, about failing and falling down and getting up and trying to stagger on toward success...You're like a cake when you're young. You can't rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes patience, and heat." (Anna Quindlen)

I love the last two lines. I think there are a lot of areas where you just ripen, and you can't force it. BUT I think we are all cakes forever, still learning. At least I hope so.

Comments

Kalei's Best Friend said…
yep, have to agree... or you have to make the mistakes in order to learn... :-)
7:09 PM
Poppy said…
Sometimes you have to show him the bad stuff to make him understand why the good stuff is worth it. 8 short blocks is nothing! :)
9:08 PM
Rachel Federman said…
reminds me of a quote - I have to find it - about how the goal in life is to be defeated by bigger and bigger things
1:04 PM
judy in ky said…
I know I'm still learning!
4:03 PM
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