Sagacious me

My friend, Harriet, told me I wasn't old enough to be a sage.  Since she is just two weeks younger than I, I began to wonder if she might be right.  So I looked up the word sage in the dictionary.  It said,"A venerable(usually implying age) man(we'll insert woman) of recognized experience, prudence, and foresight.

I figure anyone who has lived three quarters of her life should be able to be considered kind of sagy and definitely more venerable, anyway.  I can be pretty ponderous at times, I think.  Most people on earth are younger than I, therefore, I should be more sagacious than they are. 

All one needs to do is either go through life and experience it all yourself and see how it all comes out or learn from the trials and tribulations of others and let them show you what they learned the hard way.  Either way the outcome is the lesson that makes you wiser.  Therefore, you just can't help wanting to share all that wisdom with everyone else.

Even a twenty year old  can be a sage to a teenager.  He is a much better conveyor of what  consequences to expect for most any situation the youth may encounter on any given day than any hundred year old could who was that age almost a century ago. The problem is most teens seem to have a need to find out on their own.  Too bad.

So anyway, I guess what I need to do now is go talk to the hundred and six year old I know.  Maybe she can help me avoid some of the pitfalls of my old age.