Wisdom Lost
In the failure to find a meaning, we traded wisdom for success.
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Susan Kimball
Wonderful words with a wonderful image!
adgray
In the failure to find a meaning
we traded wisdom for success
You tell me this as if it heals
our feeling of emptiness
but the search for inner fulfillment
and sanctuary for our soul
still goes on in private
until contented with our whole
perhaps in trading wisdom
for material and monetary gain
is just a bluff to shield us
while our being deals with our pain
of finding ourselves lacking
and drowning in the stress
when all we need do is be helpful
then our mere existence is the success
☼
I hope you don’t mind me expanding on your words
but I feel there is no trade off of wisdom and success the trade off is wisdom for material affluence
Even the poorest of people are successful in their living – possibly more so for surviving under greater odds! and for all their wealth and power at the end of the day a rich w’man still becomes dust and only loved ones honour the memory of their life … if s’he warranted that love.
An absolutely stunning image of tranquility and beauty with the ancient reminder of man’s everlasting search for wisdom. Brilliant! BRAVO!
Thank you! X♥X
Peter Kurdulija replied
Hi Adgray,
Thank you for the participation in this thread. It certainly added another angle to the well discussed question of ‘to be, or to have’.
I live in New Zealand, a part of, what we know as a Western type society. Here, and I strongly suspect in many other countries that implement similar value systems, the word ‘success’ is always associated with wealth. When media speak of a successful man, they hardly talk of a happy, contended person. What they have in mind is someone with an above average possession of material wealth.
Therefore my short sentence below the image comes with a touch of sarcasm. Yes, we wouldn’t say having ‘success’ in life is anything particularly bad, as you pointed out, but indulging exclusively in trying to gain its vulgarized interpretation certainly is. This short sentence of mine contains a derogatory view of the whole concept of ‘success’ that we are bombarded with, hence the choice of the word.
Steven de Siow
Beautiful image. BTW, I will never traded wisdom for success. :D
Marjorie Wallace
Just a wonderful image. Magical work and your words are profound. Although wisdom comes with time and experience. A friend of mine says, “If you are not making mistakes, then you are not learning.” I find that more true as time goes on and I am thankful for every grain of wisdom I earn. Thank you for sharing this! An instant favorite.
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