New Year's Resolution #4

After having touched on the essentials in this series, I think today, we need to consider munching on practical little nuggets of truths and little things to help us along in our little journey we call life.

Back in the early 1990s I got started with the "wonders" of electronic mail, BBS bulletin boards and the world wide web. From then on having access to information got easier and easier for everyone. Today a quarter century later, most people cannot even imagine going through life without it.

Back in the pre PC, Mac, tablet and smartphone era, there were just books and other related materials brought about by the invention of the printing press and other innovations since then, such as the radio, the television and other forms of mass media and communications.

Before that, everything was recorded by hand and some kind of writing tool, and some of these writings we still have copies today. One of the oldest writings people still read today and are still relevant were written thousands of years ago and are preserved in a book we call Proverbs.

Today, we can easily find a version of this book online and reading through a few proverbs each day isn't really a bad idea. Each culture have a set of proverbs they call their own. Although unknown to many people, many modern "sayings" were derived from this book of proverbs.

For starters, here a few we can munch on today:

"Don’t assume that you know it all."

"Dear friend, guard Clear Thinking and Common Sense with your life; don’t for a minute lose sight of them."

"Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances."

"Fools are headstrong and do what they like; wise people take advice."

"Fools have short fuses and explode all too quickly; the prudent quietly shrug off insults."

"Know-it-alls don’t like being told what to do; they avoid the company of wise men and women."

"Truth lasts; lies are here today, gone tomorrow."


Read and take heed of a proverb today.