The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements – as well as one’s deepest failures – is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Tillich
Someone shared the above quote with me the other day that has me grappling with what ambiguity 1Ambiguity: the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness. really means to me. I’m also aware it may mean something different to others. I find myself saying “I don’t know” much more than when I was younger and smarter. I want to believe I say, “I don’t know” more often because I’m wiser rather than smarter. It also takes away the worry of being right or wrong. Maybe that’s a symptom of maturity.
Well, the prep has begun as I stopped the eliquis Tuesday night and will start again Sunday morning. I begin the laxative today at noon then start my first cocktails at 6:00 pm. Colonoscopy Friday at 2:00 pm. Fun times at this age!! I know you’re jealous.
3 Comments
Earl
Yelp, the older we get, the less we know for sure and the less it all means. The only saving grace is that we get to call it maturity. Haha!
I’m not a bit jealous, but good luck, and I hope everything comes out okay. ~grin~
Earl
I’m uncertain what replying to one’s own comments says about someone, but I’ll take a chance here. Haha! I was flippant in my comment about knowing less for sure now. The highs and lows of our lives seem so momentous as we live through them. Reaching a point where we can “let go of them” and laugh about them can be a release, a granting ourselves freedom from the burden of our past. Perhaps that’s maturity.
Monte Stevens
It seems the knowing that I claim now in my life is more about intuitive knowing. It is not based on intellectual knowledge, although that is a part of it, but it has much more to do with my heart, my soul, my gut. There are some things we just know. I’m not sure saying I know less or I know more is what’s really important. It’s a very different knowing that directs how I live life.
I suggest that a wise man will know when to reply to his own comments! I so appreciate all of your comments. Hope you enjoy your Friday. Just finished my last cocktail so I know I’m no longer full of s***, at least for the rest of today.