No return...

‘The Fountain of Youth is found deep within each one of us’

-The Puppet Master

When was the last time you sat by yourself and said ‘I wish I was young again’. Or when was the last time you told someone ‘Wish I was half my age knowing what I now know’. If you haven’t said it in a long time is most likely because you’ve been too busy to even think about it, but when a single second of respite appears these thoughts come back, as if there was nothing else more important to think about.

The longing of our past youth shows partly regret at our current situation. Who were we when we were 17? We were just an immature version of ourselves. That said we don’t have to long for that ‘lost self’, we ARE that same person and we can do most things just as we did.

You can still laugh at stupid things…

You can still relax and watch movies till the morning…

You can still speak countless hours on the phone…

You can still live life to its fullest…

…intelligently

…wisely

So take an hour to go to that coffee place where you sit down and relax and invite yourself on a date. Invite your old self. Just sit there and relax, not with a newspaper at hand, not with a laptop, not with work stuff. Get your favorite flavor poured and just talk to yourself. Talk about all those things you not just ‘would like to do’, tell yourself those things you ‘will do’ and you will discover you have a chance to be happy and achieve those things you have always dreamed of.

When the date ends, say goodbye to that child you left behind and long for, and say hello to a newer, complete you.

Lesson learned: ‘Others can only bring temporary happiness to our lives, for true happiness must be achieved by our own effort’

Knowledge knows...

‘Ignorance is bliss, for the ignorant…’

-The Puppet Master

You have to admit it feels good to know things. A sense of superiority, no matter how humble the person, fills a being when he finds out he understands more or better than others around him. Knowledge is a powerful weapon.

Ignorance, by the same token, is a great curse afflicting human society. Those powerful enough to keep knowledge limited and keep it from reaching the hands of the populace are dictators and tyrants of the worst kind.

Why do we choose to keep knowledge from others? Do we have such low self-esteem that we need even this to feel superior?

Teaching is one of the best professions there is out there, if you come to think of it. Teachers are much more powerful than military leaders, doctors, artists, writers and even rulers. Teachers create each and all of them.

Speak honestly to others when asked, and reveal all you know. Give unto others, transmit your knowledge, for in the end it will otherwise all go to the grave, where not even the worms will get sustenance from it.

Lesson learned: ‘If I teach all the ways I can save a life perhaps I will be saved in the same way in the future’.