School of Hard Knocks
The guidance that comes through waiting — through the proper channels, through the priest, through the ancestors — is worth far more than whatever relief I might feel by rushing.
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by Herushafi Pernebsati
Growing up, my father would share his wisdom with me. I would listen — but at the same time, I'd look at him like he had no idea what he was talking about. And I think a lot of us, at that age, see our parents that way. We tell ourselves they don't understand, they don't get it, that we're smarter than them.
My father was the kind of man who would say, "I'm going to give you my opinion, and then I'm going to let you decide." And more often than not, my decision was: I know better than you.
Now I'm a father. My children come to me with the same questions I once brought to him. I give them the best advice I have. And I watch them make choices that tell me, in no uncertain terms, that they don't think I know what I'm talking about — that they know better.
