Growing Old is Compulsory, Growing Wise is Optional

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Age is something we are unable to control. No matter you spend a year at world’s best office or you spend it in one of the worst slum or at any pilgrimage in the end it is a loss of a year from our life. On the brighter side, it adds one extra candle to your birthday cake. Now who would not like to have cake, well, on the serious note I come to my point that Growing Old is Compulsory. Now, how do we grow old? That is something remains unexplained. I’m not going to the biology part; scholars are wise enough to convince you. Oh! Did I say wise? Sure I did, now why Growing Wise is Optional? Why the wisdom does not increase with age? Is it something inborn or are we able to take control of? You might have heard many stories like the son of a farmer became a doctor or a scientist. So how that happens? The wisdom may have several perspectives like a wise Judge, a wise Farmer, a wise Minister, a wise teacher etc. Now, a Judge may not know how to teach Organic Chemistry, I believe that is pretty much obvious. Now, when you write down the equation that one molecule of ethane when reacts with one molecule of water, it will produce one molecule of ethanol and two molecules of hydrogen, you may be wise in chemistry or when you say that an offer is general when it is made to public you may be wise in Law. Do you really believe that great wise men are supermen? The answer is “NO”. They choose to be wise and they became wise. If you wake up on alarm at 3 AM in the mid-night and start eating junk food for seven consecutive days, the eighth day you won’t need an alarm. Brain does not store information if it does then trust me you’d require one five hundred times or may be bigger than that of what you got compare to what you remember. Listening to an inspirational or motivational speaker will not make you wise they can only tell you what shall make you wise. It is basically getting

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