My dear young friends, It’s no use asking me for advice. I seldom took any, and when I did, it was usually the wrong kind. Besides, young people usually resent being given advice by patronising elders and go out of their way to do the very opposite of what they have been advised to do.
You will learn from your mistakes. Or maybe you won’t. I keep making the same mistakes.
I don’t learn from them. I see other people making mistakes and learning very little from them. The human being was born to make mistakes.
It was probably a mistake on the part of the Creator or on the part of evolution, whichever is your preference. The great philosophers, scientists and men of religion have all tried to justify our presence on this planet. And to what end? Conflict.
Human conflict caused by the same territorial greed that is found in animals. In many ways, the human is a superior sort of animal but only to a small degree. I look at my cat, Mimi, basking in the sun.
She is elegant and beautiful to behold – superior to a dog, definitely. She does not fawn over humans because she sees through them. She knows my weaknesses and that, as a human, I am supposed to have a conscience.
My eyesight is terribly poor now, and one sunny morning, book in hand, I sat down in my easy chair, only to rise immediately, for I had sat on Mimi! She shrieked in anguish, for I am no lightweight. I apologised humbly and took my book elsewhere, leaving her the sole occupant of the easy chair. Now, the chair .