The Young Gun And The Wise Man

 Generation after generation, we learn from various people from all walks of life about all kinds of things. The young and eager find out certain aspects of life through a format and sometimes can be a pain in the ass and wants to move along faster, sometimes they take patience to heart and slowly progress but at the end, takes the lessons and goes on his own path. The wise man, who has taken lessons from his years of being taught or in some cases self-taught and passes on to the next generation and finds certain aspects of the emotional investment. 

It doesn't matter if you're young or old, there's always something we can learn from somebody and we learn things that didn't always involve google or social media. People have a history to such a degree that at times we can't always comprehend because of their background, what they learned and what they applied. Now it can be rough to understand who we learn from or what we have become because of our upbringing, what we did or didn't do and if we become similar or the complete opposite of whom we learned from. 

In my life, I learned from a good number of people from friends to family, to complete strangers and mentors along the way. I learned what works, what not to do and observed people from different perspectives. I'm still learning all these things and for good reason. There are some people in life that we shouldn't learn from but as fate would have it, we learn anyway and we find out in ourselves if we become the young gun or the wise man or both. In a literal sense, there's always going to be a young kid looking for something and is eager to learn either from someone or learn and wise up on his own but the wise man however is different because he's learned so much and has either stopped learning or has a continuation from another perspective. What has he truly learned that has made him wise and is he wise from a general stand point or to something specific which is a very different ball game.

Sometimes, the people we learn from, we become the complete opposite of  because what they taught us can have major consequences in life and something didn't feel right or they just taught us to be an asshole when in fact that's not always what you want to be in life. Sometimes we are taught in another extreme direction that it can be confusing as hell and it's hard to form a decision of using that extreme teaching or forming something different. There needs to be some kind of balance where we can shift from one thing to another in the right format but often times we tend to shift in more of a direction that we didn't have a choice in or were pushed in that direction because it was meant to happen at a certain point in time.

Now because there are people from all walks of life, they'll teach you things you'll either take with gusto and wisdom or shrug it off and go somewhere else. Hell there are people out there today that'll tell you that if you wear a mask you're not a man, you're a pussy but there are others that'll tell you wearing a mask keeps you safe, in my opinion, it's your choice and it shouldn't be held against you if you make a choice that works for you. Some are wise enough to make a choice and move forward with it and maybe things will happen and maybe they won't. Others are the young guns who are still learning and figuring out what works and what doesn't for them. 

I say, be a bit a bit of both, be wise in some aspect but also have the mindset of a young gun and learn things that you can use later on. We all learn something and we're either going to grow from it or it'll eventually die out and we go somewhere else, either way, life will throw you a curveball at the most unexpected times.