Sometimes you have to let go of the things you thought were precious to you, sometimes it’s the only way to be free of all the nonsense and to move forward…

The Private Digi-logs of Vresta M’Ogano: The Discovery

The Private Digi-logs of Vresta M’Ogano: The Invitation

The Private Digi-logs of V’resta M’Ogano: Preparation and Training

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Now clear your head, step into the week like you’re stepping into the ring!

As one grows older, as a result of having seen a good deal of life, shouldn’t one also grow wiser, perhaps struggle to become a better human being, leaving behind old prejudices, greed and vengeance and begin, if one has not begun already, to look to one’s own development as a human being, to grow in understanding… That is if one is interested in becoming more fulfilled from the inside out…

A young person is often influenced by friends and family, teachers and mentors.  However, at some point during their existence shouldn’t a person become capable of thinking clearly and develop the ability to make up his or her own mind about fundamental things that include knowing the difference between right and wrong… Okay, whatever… People don’t really care about that, is the resounding response....

Growth, development, maturity…

Perhaps our problem stems from the lack of elders in our society… At one time, rather than learning about life online, through social networks, we looked to a small group of older folk who had, through experience and a certain talent for leading others, grown in wisdom… They simply knew stuff, taught us useful skills and shared their wisdom through the telling of stories––funny, sad and awe-inspiring tales about those who came before, the legends of their adventures and battles, failures and successes… Through these stories, we learned about the world around us and we learned about ourselves…

Our elders were not just a bunch of old people for whom we had no respect, they imparted a form of wisdom that helped us to grow into more complete individuals… Whether or not we agreed with their position on ideas, or believed the amazing stories they told, didn’t matter, what mattered was the fact that we caught a glimpse of history through their eyes and added it to ourselves and to who we were… Much later on, if we had grown in wisdom and had the talent for it, one or two of us from the next generation, might, in turn, become members of the group of elders ...

Grandpa’s busy getting high and chasing women half his age…

Our elders have a duty to teach us morals, decent values, help us learn skills that might otherwise be lost, and we, in turn, have a duty to ensure their position as respected elders in our society… Maybe grandpa would never have become an elder in the old world… But to be sure, in the modern landscape, we rarely get the chance to find out…

Our elders are grouped in with everybody else of a certain age group, those known as the elderly… and have become invisible… No-one wants to hear their stories, no-one wants to share their wisdom… We have lost something in recent times…

Just watch the bad behavior of people, whom we are supposed to respect, on the news…

Of course, when grandma is only thirty-five years old and more interested in shaking her thang on the dance-floor than imparting wisdom to the little ones, and you live hundreds, maybe thousands of miles away from grandpa who is busy getting high and chasing women half his age… And, anyway, even if that wasn’t his M.O., you wouldn’t have the time for his weird rantings about when he was young…

Who is learning from the garbled chatter filling the air...?

Something has definitely been lost.... Who knows where the blame lies, perhaps with all of us––society as a whole, all talking simultaneously, all attempting to be heard at the same time, but who is doing the listening, who is learning from the garbled chatter filling the air… The world is noisier than ever and it is clear that technology having become the new soul of man plays its part…

It isn’t just about older family members being ignored, but older members of the community in general, some of whom should have become our elders… Something has gone missing inside the continuity of our species… Without our elders, the wise ones, we stop moving forward and start going in ever-devolving circles.

If we have not taken the time to learn and to grow as individuals, how much wisdom can we possibly impart to the next generation?  Without wisdom, what happens to the next inheritors of this world?