"Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation." - Hosea Ballou.
Chief Airegin is a politician. He's reputed to have billions starched away in foreign countries. He moves around with well-armed bodyguards but the road to his little village is not tarred, and is without pipe-borne water and no power supply.
He's practically worshiped by his people because he gives a bag of rice to every family every Christmas. But Chief Airegin is plagued by insomnia. His children are all abroad living lavish, purposeless, drug-infested lives. By all standards, Chief Airegin is a wealthy man, and by same standards, equally a sad man.
Yes, wisdom is a virtue innate in few, acquired by some and hardly present in most. Look around you and discover how only few skulls have brains, the rest being merely covered with hair. Isn't it folly to loot so much from the commonwealth that the size of it suffocates even the thief - and yet he keeps looting?
I've often said of Airegin that he's the poorest man in his community because a rich man in the midst of poor people is a poor man, and his poverty is greater because he has lost the freedom to enjoy nature in quiet privacy. O, what a prison!
Search yourself, my friend, and be not like Chief Airegin who robs his happiness to feed his ego, who lacks the capacity to see the disaster he brings upon even himself.
It's true that he who cannot be counselled cannot be helped. Airegin sits squarely in that class. And like his fellow hollow men who cannot breathe outside their ego, Chief Airegin cannot be persuaded otherwise. You know why? It requires wisdom to understand wisdom - the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Only the deep understand the deep.
Be deep.
Get Wisdom!
Did you know? - Our moon is about 4.5 billion years old
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