How Do You Even Know This? 🤔
People have asked me this more times than I can count.
“How do you even know this?”
“Wait, how old are you?!”
“You’re too young to be saying things like this!”
(Yes, thank you for the compliment — I’ll take it 😏)
But here’s the thing:
It’s not about how many years you’ve lived.
It’s about how many moments you’ve actually digested 🍽️
You see, wisdom isn’t automatically included with your age.
It’s not like your annual subscription to life experience comes bundled with free wisdom points 🎟️✨
If only, right?
Experience alone doesn’t make you wise 🧩
Living through ups and downs, rich and poor, joy and heartbreak, sunshine and thunderstorm ☀️🌧️ — yes, all of that adds flavour to life.
But here’s the catch:
Experience is just raw material.
Wisdom is what you get when you take those experiences…
…and process them.
Reflect on them.
Understand them.
Take a step 🐾 back and see: What is life trying to teach me here?
Otherwise?
You’re just collecting life events like fridge magnets 🧲 — colourful, fun, but mostly sitting there on display while life moves on.
Wisdom = Experience – Emotion 🎓
Here’s a cheeky formula for you to consider:
Wisdom = Experience, minus the stickiness of emotions
When you strip away the drama, the fear, the frustration — what remains is the essence of the lesson.
This is why some people live fifty years but only truly digest five years of their life (or maybe none at all) 😏
While others, even younger, seem to carry depth far beyond their age.
It’s not magic.
It’s not luck.
It’s reflection 🌱
Live fully, reflect deeply 🌿
So yes — live life fully:
Rich or poor
Happy or sad
Excited or anxious
Bitter or sweet
Taste it all. Experience it all.
But don’t just swallow life whole — chew on it. Digest it.
Because wisdom isn’t about how much you’ve lived.
It’s about how much you’ve learnt from what you’ve lived 🌸
Your Turn 🪞
What’s one experience you’ve had recently that you could sit with a little longer — just to see what wisdom is quietly waiting to be found?
Take your time. Life is still serving plenty of experiences for you to taste 🍽️