Unleashing Your Wisdom On Others

After you have gone through a life-changing experience and come out on the other side, after you've discovered the joy of therapeutic writing and daily blogging, after you feel you have transformed your relationship with the world and with yourself, it is perfectly natural to feel like unleashing this newfound wisdom on the world, or at least on the people around you. It is tempting to read other people through the lens you read yourself, and identify their strengths and flaws. And try to correct their flaws. Which is not a bad thing in itself. I don't belief this inclination, at least in me, comes from pride and a desire to have my wisdom validated, but a place of concern. At least most of the time. When a number of people say you are wise to start to believe them and feel pressured to act wise. And, that is when you stop listening to people. Pride is not bad in itself, but is harmful when it starts to dominate over other emotions. And starts to drown out what people around you are saying. Because wisdom doesn't lie in seeking truths about life and disseminating it to the world. It lies in responding to the needs of yourself and those around you in the most fruitful manner possible. And, that requires active listening and suspension of judgement. It is difficult to know when to intervene and when to keep your counsel to yourself. But, listening, pausing for a moment before an intervention can  help to  some extent.