I think just because a person knows things or thinks things or thinks he or she knows things does not make that person particularly wise or particularly foolish. I think that all of that only makes that person that person. We all know things and we all think things and we all think that we know things. We all experience things and we all cannot experience everything that someone else experiences in his or her life.

We can all believe that we know how it must feel to experience that which we never experienced and we can each feel that we know exactly how another person must feel because we too experienced that same experience in our life. But, as to that, we actually cannot ever know what anything feels like or seems like to any other person that experiences anything in life. We can only surmise that we do or believe that we can and do but the reality of our humanness does not allow us to actually know for any certainty that we actually do feel and do know how anyone feels about anything.

Wisdom tells us to stay clear of drawing such conclusions of knowing or believing just because we had had that same experience before or because we think we know how that person must or would feel because it seems to us that if that experience happened to us, well, it is clear to us that we would feel this certain way. But would they or would we?

Experience is often times a very good teacher but it is not the best teacher and it is not a very clear teacher, either. Too many times our experiences teaches us the wrong things and too many times we misinterpret what our experiences might better have taught us and too many times our experiences teaches us that we cannot do better and we cannot overcome diversity and wrong-headiness and too many times our experiences teaches us that we cannot be successful when all along we could be successful if we put those experiences behind us and moved on leaving those experiences behind us.

I think it is wise to glean the good you can out of any experience that you experience or that you can glean from another person’s experience but don’t for a minute think that because of that experience or that other person’s experience that that identifies you or catalogues you or pigeon holes you in any way.

Always allow yourself as much leeway and personal judgment as you can in all that you experience to better identify and quantify your own self in this, your life, because if you do that you will find that you will be the happier for it.