Mere Persistence

The older you get, the more of everything you’ve had happen to you.

You’ve lived more days, conceived of more thoughts, survived more dangers simply by persisting, and that persistence leads to the accumulation of successes and failures, scars and smile-inducing snapshots, birthday cards and funerals.

Wisdom, then, is at least partially just the accumulation of a diversity of experiences enabled by chronological tenacity.

Get enough hands-on with life and you’ll tend to pick up a few things about how to do life better, at least in circumstances similar to (or otherwise reflective of) your own.