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.

Did Destiny Bring Choices, or Do Choices Become Destiny? by Brent M. Jones →

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Do people enter our lives
for a reason?

Do they arrive
to change our direction,
open doors we had not seen,
or show us a path
we might never have found alone?

Perhaps they bring a lesson,
a question,
a possibility.

Perhaps they change us
simply by being there.

We may call it destiny,
chance,
or providence.

But whatever brings someone
or something into our lives,
what happens next
still asks something of us.

A choice.

We can step through the open door
or turn away.
We can accept the lesson
or ignore it.
We can change
or remain where we are.

Perhaps destiny does not decide
who we become.

Perhaps it only brings us
to the moment
when we must decide for ourselves.

Destiny may bring the moment.
Choice determines what we do with it.