Wisdom doesn’t come from Amazon Prime. You don’t inherit it, download it, or borrow it from your abuela. As Proust reminds us, you earn it step by step on your own unpredictable, unskippable, sometimes kicked in the butt journey.
“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” ― Marcel Proust
Proust’s words hit with quiet thunder: no one can give us wisdom—it’s something we must carve out of our own experiences. The journey toward it may be long, messy, and even painful, but it’s ours alone to make. And when we arrive, it’s not just wisdom we gain—it’s the strength of knowing we got there on our own two feet.
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