Life is NOT like a box of chocolates because chocolates doesn’t get any sweeter with age, as life is supposed to. Fate and experience are often determinative factors to living a sweet life, but both requires the recipient of a sweet life to be a learned individual and not necessarily from books. Socrates is attributed with writing “the unexamined life is not worth living.” What that means to me is a life not challenged by adversity is a life suffering from malnutrition of the soul. Physical and emotional nourishment comes from growth, which happens in stages. Thus, us living our lives in parts.

Understanding that helps us to see beyond the fog of life and into the center of our being where clarity lives. Otherwise, we are doomed to live life in fractured pieces. Life is truly a stage, but how we live it depends on fate or experience and only those things can help us make better decisions that will hopefully lead us to our destiny as ordered by our maker. Life at 30 is supposed to be clearer at 60, but sometimes clarity is loss by prioritizing the wrong things, which may lead us to places we rather not go.

It takes great courage to share your trials and tribulations to the world, but it also takes a small amount of empathy to want to help others avoid the pitfalls that led to them.

Many thanks to my guest on this episode and to the others who had previously appeared and shared their personal stories or opinions about life.