We are surrounded by too much information while we search for wisdom

I am a nerd. I have alwaya been a nerd. I love to learn. I soak up information like a sponge.

In the technology age, we are surrounded by information. When I graduated high school, only 34% of American households had Internet access at their homes. Today, we walk around connected to the Internet nearly 24/7 through a phone more advanced and powerful than the first personal computer.

Our phones can tell us where to go, where we are, what we spend our time doing, when to be at a meeting, how many steps we take each day, and the answer to any questions we may have.

When I first realized that there was so much information in the palm of my hand I became mesmerized by all that information and all of the wonderful things that a smartphone could do. I love to follow technology and learn about new gadgets that are being developed.

Yet, in all of that information, have any of us actually become any wiser? Or do we still get our wisdom from things we experience first hand?

Do you learn more by keeping up with what everyone you know is up to at any given moment?

Or does having a place to interact with people that you know from the comfort of your own home only give you a sense of being social while still being too lazy to actually be around them?

There are things that adults told me years ago that I dismissed and had to learn the hard way. There are younger people that I talk to now and I tell them the exact same things that I was told and they dismiss me, only to come back later and say that I was right. Lol.

Are there some things that you just have to learn for yourself?

Are those things always involving relationships, friendships, sex, and love? Those are usually things that people have questions about but in the end, they still have to learn it through experiencing the feelings and thoughts themselves. 

You can tell someone that someone else is not a good guy for them because of these reasons and lay those reasons out for them but what are the chances that they will actually listen to you? Most people might listen, but in the end, they would try to make a failing situation work with someone who is not good for them.

Sometimes maybe it is better to let people learn things on their own. Sometimes it is better to intervene.

The wisdom comes in knowing the difference.