Larry Benson Live

One of the advantages that comes with a certain age is that you start to get some perspective on things and start to really understand how those things have worked in your life.  Recently I have started to see the results of stress in my life and on my body and I don’t much care for it but at the same time it is a revelation that it is really affecting me the way it is.

There are other things too that I have realized in my life that were not always evident to me. For instance, I see how counterproductive getting emotionally upset is. There was a time when I would have not known that and participated in it to a great degree but now it is different. It’s different not that I never get upset any longer it’s just now that I recognize how useless it really is and I have begun to try to take steps to change that.

In the case of emotional upset, I find that observing others has made a big difference. It’s hard for me to see it in myself and make much of a difference in my behavior but it’s easy to see how counterproductive it is in someone else. And then there’s another thing, correcting others is one of those things that just doesn’t work very well either. In most cases no one listens and you tend to alienate those that you feel free enough to correct. So what’s the use, honestly? Why would you want to alienate those closest to you?

These are just a few of the examples of the things that I have noticed in my own life they may not be true for you. But maybe you found other things that seem evident now but at one time you were totally oblivious to.

Here’s another example, at one time in my life I felt like things changed me or at least how I felt about me. Like cars and clothes and jewelry, but now I know that those things really don’t make any difference at all. No amount of dressing it up makes any difference at least on the inside. Obviously you want to put your best foot forward when you’re dealing with people in the world but it is important to remember those things don’t change me.

Maybe it’s just maturity, maybe it’s not wisdom at all but it least it feels like that to me. In the same vein as this thought, is a whole other thought about why people have to die. It seems so unfair that after they’ve gained a lifetime or what we consider a lifetime of wisdom they leave and people are born and it has to start all over. But I suppose that’s a thought for another post on another day.