Lack of Self-Knowledge: Reason #6
#6 I’m too old and it’s too late.
Uhh, no.
You already know this isn’t accurate. When you learn something new about anything you feel better armed, feel good, delighted even. That will be multiplied astronomically when you become a detective of yourself.
If you have found a new career late in life…
If you have found someone to love late in life…
If you have found a new interest, a new way of learning, late in life…
Or if you found these or similar things in early stages of life or in mid-life…
Those are all good things.
I have recently discovered things about animals that astonish me.
We had dogs when we were growing up: Scamp, Gyp, both mongrels, Cleopatra, an elegant black Irish setter, and others, but aside from playing with them (and running with Cleo) I never really had time to learn much about them
GRACIE THE DOG
Two years ago, my wife got us a dog, a cross between a Golden Retriever and a Poodle. We called her Gracie (GRRRacie) after Gracie Fields, the brilliant vaudeville-standup comedy partner of George Burns and because my wife sometimes says things like Gracie Allen did.
If you remember, (or have seen them on You Tube) Gracie was the foil, the pretend ‘dumb’ partner who could be never get anything right. Burns would go off on some topic or explain something or offer an opinion and he’d ask her what she thought (or she’d butt in with an opinion). Invariably what she said made no sense at all. Gracie appeared never to “get”; what George was talking about.
Here’s an example of Burns and Allen.
Anyway after watching Gracie and seeing astonishing videos about dogs, and many other animals, I have a new deeper respect for the creatures. That is wisdom I didn’t have before.
I’ve learned something about myself too. A greater awareness of nature, an affection for animals that wasn’t there before I did have respect for them!
We can all learn more about ourselves in surprising ways and those things we learn help us become more human, more compassionate.
Well, in this case, that’s what I learned.
You learn other things from different experiences.
If you find learning things about yourself makes you more aware of life around you, more able to “see’ things in a proper (or different) perspective, let’s talk.
Send me an email.
frankdaley@rogers.com
Frank
