LESSON: I wish I had known these profound distinctions between Intelligence and Wisdom a long time ago…

LESSON: I wish I had known these profound distinctions between Intelligence and Wisdom a long time ago… By Eaglesforesight

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You wouldn’t have argued with me that, alot happens in life that we can easily avoid only if we know how to apply intelligence and wisdom in the first place.

“The opposition of the road not taken (the ‘straight’ road) to the route chosen (the ‘crooked’ route) carries its own paradoxical resonance. Obviously, the straight road is preferable to the ‘crooked’; strategically, physically, and ethically; indeed, the metaphorical use of these expressions — the straight and the crooked paths — is a commonplace in ethical writings. Yet, here, my stories make a point of not taking the obvious route … Through this short piece, I want to make us to understand that the Israelites, even at some moment, are ambivalent about the movement to freedom” (“Reflections on the Holy book of Exodus”).

My points to very real challenges with journeying: anxiety, uncertainty. The Exodus from Egypt is laden with a certain fear of the unknown, and it seems that God was worried that once the Israelites saw the challenges that would arise while wandering in the desert, they would prefer to return to Egypt, where, although enslaved, they at least felt a certain degree of consistency in their lives, a familiar routine.

This is a struggle that many people face at least one time or another in life: a reluctance to try something new, to veer off into uncharted territory, to stray from our comfort zones, all at the risk of traveling a path that is less familiar or comfortable.

As we learn in the Babylonian Talmud, “There is a long way which is short and a short way which is long”. The journey of the Jewish people through the wilderness from slavery to freedom is undoubtedly filled with trials and tribulations, yet ultimately, through our circuitous route, we become a unified nation, a People of Israel, stronger from our many few experiences, more mature through our overcoming adversity and eventually, more assured that leaving our Egypt (mysterious and unwanted life) soon was in fact the right thing to do.

In this poem “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost wrote, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” I think that there is something to be said for taking the easy route because it makes us feel safe. At the same time, I also think that there is something profound in taking road less traveled, even if longer, windier and more dangerous along the way. Sometimes, the harder we work for something, the more we appreciate what we’ve accomplished once we arrive at our destination.

For me not to bulge us more with my long but meaningful epistles and not to digress from the subject matter, let me quickly tell us that, it was (is) so unfortunate that many of us in this life met ourselves where we never pray nor wish to be in our entire life, but circumstances and ignorance of not foreseeing the clearer pictures of the situations pushed us to unwanted places in the journey of our life.

To stay away from someone or something, or prevent something from happening, or not allow yourself to do something is something many of us never see as a big deal, meanwhile it saves many soul from unwanted stories that touches heart.

If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening. Those actions requires nothing much other than intelligent and wisdom to sense something miserable coming, and by so doing, one would have been saved from many things that we might not even appreciate except if we met ourselves unfortunately in the unwanted event.

Many met themselves in captivity of life just because they lack the foresight of the situations of things at the spot of all the events that LEDs them to where they never wanted to be in the life journey they met themselves.

I use to know of so many marriages that break up because, they couldn’t ideally permit realities to take charges of things but otherwise they gave it all for emotions to take control of their feelings and few years after wedding, many unwanted and unpleasant excuses started coming in and that leads to complications.

If many Ex-convicts come out to tell stories of what took them to the detentions or prison they unwantedly and eventually met themselves, you will be surprised that it doesn’t worth it in the first place. Just an avoidance could have saved many of them from alot of shits they brought themselves into. Truly some wouldn’t have even remain in the scene if ignorancy haven’t covered their face at the spot of events that brought them to such case that leads to detentions.

Going to hospitals, ask many patients what caused the accident, sickness and many other things that might have brought them to the place, you would wonder why they couldn’t have avoided the silly mistakes that happened that unfortunate day. Someone that contacted viruses might have avoided that few seconds enjoyment or that things that caused them nothing to avoid.

How much more of people that avoided it but never knew what such actions have saved them from. 

FEW THINGS YOU NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT INTELLIGENCE AND WISDOM TO AVOID UNWANTED STORIES THAT TOUCHES HEART.

Intelligence leads to arguments.

Wisdom leads to settlements.

Intelligence is power of will.

Wisdom is power OVER  will.

Intelligence is heat, it burns.

Wisdom is warmth, it comforts.

Intelligence is pursuit of knowledge, it tires the seeker.

Wisdom is pursuit of truth, it inspires the seeker.

Intelligence is holding on.

Wisdom is letting go.

Intelligence leads you.

Wisdom guides you.

An intelligent person thinks he knows everything.

A wise person knows that there is still something to learn.

An intelligent person always tries to prove his point.

A wise person knows there really is no point.

An intelligent person freely gives unsolicited advice.

A wise person keeps his counsel until all options are considered.

An intelligent person understands what is being said.

A wise person understands what is left unsaid.

An intelligent person speaks when he has to say something.

A wise person speaks when he has something to say.

An intelligent person sees  everything as relative.

A wise person sees everything as related.

An intelligent person tries to control the mass flow.

A wise person navigates the mass flow.

An intelligent person preaches.

A wise man reaches.

Intelligence is good

but wisdom achieves better results.