Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. -Oscar Wilde I will be 56 years old this year. I am not as young as I once was. There are some good things about growing older. Older people have much to contribute when they are able to draw on the wisdom gained from direct knowledge of life. It takes considerable experience of life to understand the fleeting nature of physical satisfactions and personal profit. I had a conversation with an old friend today who recently retired after coaching high school football for 27 years. We concluded together what he is now learning: that there is indeed wisdom in the discovery of the separation of "who you are" from "what you do for a living". This is a gift, especially for ego driven, success oriented males. In the first half of life, we all have a wide margin for error, and youth often is a time of experimentation. Certainly this was true for me. I was an experimenter for much too long. It is usually in the second ha