With Age Comes Wisdom: I am God!

For those of you who are new to Prodigy, this segment is a list of quotations selected by me and written by me, and also edited and published by me. Such blatant hubris would probably be unacceptable if ”With Age Comes Wisdom” were, say, a point of purchase book , but this is a blog so I am allowed to ignore formalities and professional conflicts of interest and get away with considering myself the smartest thinker who has ever lived (with this kind of freedom, why would anyone seek to ponder the various implications of blogging as if it were the bane of all future creativity or something?). The quotations included in this series, when removed from their original contexts, often read like truisms. I think it’s safe to say that these posts are lazy posts, and for lack of anything substantive and interesting to write I decided once on a whim to just pick the best parts from some half-assed things I was writing. Those bits and pieces of writing were slapped together in the form of quotations into a post, I gave it a title and – Viola! – the “With Age Comes Wisdom” series was born. I think of it as a way to salvage good writing from what can basically be considered bad writing. When you write two paragraphs of crap, and only one or two sentences from those paragraphs stand out, you want to find a way to preserve those one or two good sentences, because the sentences that stand out exemplify something in your writing that you hope will last forever.

So without further ado, here is the latest installment of “With Age Comes Wisdom”:

~Judge, Jury and Finger Pointer~

“Judgment comes from viewing others (especially strangers) objectively, whereas we see ourselves as intricately nuanced and complicated. Each one of us is our own glass onion, whereas most of the everyday acquaintances we come into contact with look like the outsides of onions with a layer or two peeled back.”

Tim Freeman

~Loneliness~

“The only person each of us will ever completely know and get to be best friends with in life is the one person who we can’t ever wish to be – ourselves.”

Tim Freeman

~Mind under matter~

“The biggest flaw with chasing after lofty ideals is that they are perfect conceptions of our brains, and these conceptions remain uncorrupted by the real world as long as they stay in our heads. Life, as all of us know, is far from perfect, and when pure notions are put to the test in the messiness of reality, they don’t always hold firm.”

Tim Freeman