The Healthy Don’t Need a Doctor
Sharing your knowledge with people with knowledge is a good practice. It helps to grow knowledge by making sense of others’ experiences and points of view. Great discussions emerge when people share what they know among themselves. On the other hand, it becomes inevitably a competition when some people only respect their own opinions and points of view with or without facts. Such individuals need not knowledge since they claim to know it all. It is a different story when someone wants to learn giving the opportunity for a teachable moment and we turn away. Because some people lack the knowledge is why we should take hold of the opportunity to share. Because they don’t know we can teach them.
Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. (Luke 5:31 NIV)
Life Incomplete by Ivan Tirado
Sounds simple. In theory we understand what it means. However, when it comes to practice it is easier for most people to ‘preach to the choir’ instead of reaching for those who actually need it. No, I’m not talking about religion. I’m talking about sharing knowledge with those who are lacking. It applies to any domain and field. It also applies to our role in the situation. Sometimes we are the ones who need to ask, listen, and learn. We don’t know it all no matter how much of an expert we think we are. Looking up to someone to learn something new is not demeaning or humiliating, it is strength of character and a sign of trust.
There is nothing wrong with accepting that we don’t know it all. The opposite is plain absurd, foolish, and unhealthy. Only those recognizing a need will seek for that need to be fulfilled. Denying the need only closes the doors to growth and development. We all have something new to learn. If we let our pride and ego to surrender we will be in a better position to receive attention.
I Am Forty
Yes, I am forty. What does that mean? It means I reached an age of enlightenment and wisdom. Being 40 means that anyone under the age of 28 could technically be my son or daughter. That statement in itself changes the way you see people and how you see yourself. Being 40 means that I am not as fast or strong as I used to be but I can still play sports with people half my age with the advantage that I have nothing to prove. The pressure is all on them. If I win, they get defeated by an old man. If I lose, I’m just old. It is a win-win situation for me.
It is good to understand the advantages and limitations of your own body at any age. I am aware of mine. I do have to start working out again for health purposes. I am really not concerned about the beauty aspects of working out because it really doesn’t get any better than this. My only concern is giving away my favorite jeans because my voice changes if I wear them. If I didn’t look like Hugh Jackman 10 years ago, it is not going to happen in the next 10 years. I take smart over handsome any day because smart gets better with age, handsome is just a path downhill after certain age. Either way I’m happy with my appearance. I just need to do my part to stay healthy.
Going back to how you see yourself and others, I think Paul provided a guideline to Timothy (1 Timothy 5:1-2) that transcends any age:
Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
I am very happy to make it until today. It is going to be a regular busy day with all the blessings as any other day, but I’m glad I can be close to my wife and kids, what I have and what I do, and what I have to do. Here is for another day, celebrating each day like the last, but working as if I have 100 more years to live. The plan is to be 40 until I turn 50.
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