Simple wisdom

I guess there are probably different types of wisdom. What I'm going to call here 'simple wisdom' is wisdom that's grounded squarely in reality, is profound, and is delivered by someone who doesn't have the slightest regard for being considered wise. I knew a guy in Brisbane who was a sage of this kind of wisdom. I think he drove forklifts for a living, he definitely worked long hours, and he also had a baby a couple of years back, when he was probably about 23. There I was studying and working a bit while he was doing 60 hour weeks and bringing up a child. He never went to uni, probably hadn't read much literature or philosophy, just learned through life experience I guess.

I saw a few guys tonight at a sports thing I'm involved with and as I was leaving I had a chat with one of them - another guy who went straight from school to work. I noted that it was Thursday night again, and that weekends were starting to come round faster and faster for me. He endorsed my sentiment at first before slipping in a powerful warning:

Then you start wishing the weeks away to get to the weekend, and all of a sudden it's the end of the year and you think, "shit, where did the year go?". And before you know it you're 50 years old and you think, "shit, where did my life go?" I sat at my desk wishing it away.

Full-frontal, straight to the point, no frills wisdom. 

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