Seeing

45 years isn't enough time to see everything. It's enough time to be inadvertently observant of a lot of things, though. Whether purposeful or not, the mistakes of others provide lessons.

Seeing others not learn from those painfully obvious lessons is difficult. Even worse, though, is knowing that learning opportunities could be missed by those seeming to be astute, intelligent observers. If things can be missed by the sage, how many chances to learn have you missed?