To soon, to late

'To soon old, too late smart'

               Got this piece of advise from an older dude in shul the other day. We were talking about how with age comes experience and wisdom and he told me that for to many things in life we're to soon old and too late smart...Meaning to say that far to frequently we grow old before we grow wise and the bad or misguided decisions we make in our youth we are forced to live with for a long time and sometimes the wisdom we need to make the correct decisions comes long after the reverberations of those decisions are felt. A little somber, but he said it with an ironic smile that made me think that some of that wisdom he talked about might just have seeped in anyhow.

L'Shalom.