The Faintest Shadow

Remember the words we spoke as children? Do you recall the silly and foolish things we said and thought? We knew so little, yet still we spoke and imagined we knew all, though in truth we only played at knowing.

When you reached maturity, you cringed at these memories, at the foolish prattle you'd made as a child. But your error was the same. Young men laugh at the gibberish of children; so too do the elderly laugh at the gibberish of young men.

Consider then one day when this life is long over, these words which seem to you so wise and perceptive will be proven but the faintest shadow of true wisdom and true perception.