A Valuable Lesson

It's ironic, when I think about it…as the years pass… the more and more I grow the more and more I come to realize… all the things I do not know. My parents and my teachers helped me learn… They helped my mind to grow… but even after all their teachings… there was so much I did not know. As a parent, raising children… watching their minds and bodies grow… every day was a constant reminder… of all the things I did not know. As a teacher for 39 years trying to help my students grow… each day in the classroom I came face to face with all the things I did not know. And now that I am older… thinking back on all the years I've seen accrue… I'm starting to forget some of the things I know that I once knew! Which makes me wonder if my life isn't a balancing act… a kind of ebb and flow… between all the things I've learned and all the things I do not know. Perhaps the best that I can hope for before my life on Earth adjourns… is to use what I do know wisely… while retaining a willingness to learn… Which brings me back to irony… as the older and older I grow… It's ironic the most important lesson I've ever learned in life… Is that there's so much…I do not know.