We are teachable

    What is a Thing? Bad "things" happen, good "things" happen."Things" are not the same as "Events" or "Experiences" these are abstract, they don't exist in the real world, they are the semantic result of a "Thing".

    "Things" are real, you can touch a "thing", and it can for sure touch you. Just because it exists can a "thing" be a bad "thing"? If a "Thing" is real then how can it be bad? 

    A person can't be bad, it can only do bad "things", a person is just a person. Bad and Good are just concepts that we use to try to explain something that doesn't need an explanation. We refuse to accept that "things" can merely exist. We feel the need to catalog it in order to explain it, so it can be understood. 

    We are all wrong.

    Certain "things " need no explanation, they need no cataloging, they don't have to make sense, and that is how they will be understood. The lack of a possible and rational explanation transforms a "thing" in to the closest thing of magic that we can find. To enjoy it you just need to let go.

    Let go of your ideas of what "things" should be. Let go of your expectations about the future of "things". Let go of the past of "things". Let go of your prejudice about "things". Allow "things" to just be. Look at it with newborn eyes.  

Sometimes when "things" happen they hurt you. We all know that feeling, the death of the expectation of something good, the death of the hope of something better. We try to learn. We try to predict hurt so when it comes at least it won't be a surprise, at least we had sometime to prepare for it, or run from it. The older we get, the more we all become filled with the fear of hurt and pain. We get fragile. Others call it wisdom. The wisdom to make the right choices, the safe choices, the ones that will never bring you pain. Wisdom has a different face.

    A select group of people refuses to learn. They find the strength inside themselves to always expect the best result of "things". They collect pain and hurt. It fills them up. And they live like they are empty. They live hoping. They are believers in the wonderfulness of "things". They found the antidote to the slow poisoning of disappointment. Maybe they just keep disappointment inside and transform it. Maybe they are so filled with hope that it cancels the disappointment. Maybe they learned all the lessons, they got hurt and are well acquainted with pain. Maybe they are just filled with faith. The strong believe in something based on a  conviction rather then proof. They have the strong conviction that good things will come, and absolutely  no proof of that. People, leaning in their "wisdom" call them fools, insane people, unteachable. 

    We are teachable. We just refuse to learn a lesson that brings no joy. That is the face of wisdom. Refuse what doesn't bring you happiness.