Does Wisdom Require a Fall? by Brent M. Jones

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Does life require us to fall?
Is life the road to recovery,
or is recovery simply
the road we call life?

When do we learn its lessons?
Does wisdom come from stumbling,
or from what we discover
when we rise again?

If we knew what we needed,
would we still have to fall?
Does recovery give us vision,
or simply the distance
to see what we could not see before?

Perhaps balance is never permanent.
Perhaps wisdom is not knowing
how to avoid every fall,
but knowing how to rise
a little differently each time.

Maybe recovery is not
the end of something.

Maybe it is where
the next part of life begins.