I didn't learn - I just got older. This was said in a film starring Lesley Carron and Mel Ferrer. Is it true? I wish it was then I would be able to say I am older and wiser. Sometimes it feels half the opposite. I just remembered - the film was called "Lilli".
LOL Philip! There are days I wish I knew a lot more than I do. And when my b12 shot starts to wear off, I start getting my brain fog days.
It must be true. My grandson is 10 months old ( at present) and he doesn't seem to know as much as I do - yet. I think it was Jerome K Jerome who said that when he was 21 (or some such age)he thought his father was a complete idiot. By the time he was 50 or so he had more or less caught up with him. When I think of all the foolish things I have said and done, and I still say and do.
Well, I'm learning like mad... but forgetting things too... so I guess I'll just have to wait and see if I end up with any wisdom or not by the time I'm a grandma. (and I hope to be one, I have to work on the having kids part first though!)
I think that if anyone really realized how much time, money, effort, and heaven knows what else they would be giving up for kids then they would not have them. They are expensive from the beginning and by the time they are 35 they are astronomically expensive. Believe me - it is true. From personal experience. In the meantime, of course, my wife and I become poorer and poorer. Our income is fixed and at present there is rapid inflation in the U.K. No-one would admit it, but it is true. So our income drops and, eventually, we will wind up on social security. Never mind - such is life.
How true, Philip. But when you think about the future possibilities, and hold that precious little baby the first time, Joy overflows obscuring any negativity. Also someone has to be able to work in order to keep up social security. or there would be none.
When one thinks in a positive way, as you obviously do, then of course you are right. I don't see a great deal of Charlie but I can just remember my own kiids. They were marvellous. I am not so sure now, mind you. I don't think the two boys like me very much now - my daughter might like me, just a little, possibly.
