Surprise! We Don't Get Smarter

I am feeling a little better now that I kind of fixed the crappy theme I had on the blog.  I think I may even keep this one for awhile.

I’ve been thinking a lot about mistakes that I’ve made and although I seem to have gotten a little smarter, I’m still making some pretty damn stupid ones. All these years I assumed that I would gradually get smarter and smarter until I was an old shriveled up crazy lady, which by then is so wise that I spend my days telling fortunes on the porch (and of course quite wealthy because of it, thank you very much.)

Except it isn’t like when I was younger. You know, I used to get smarter each year that I finished a grade of school. It seems that after school things don’t move at such a speed anymore. I’m going to guess that since I’ve been out of school, instead of being 20 years smarter, my intelligence may have grown into what I would guess is equal to about 2 1/2 school years. (No specific reason for that number, just picked a low one.)

In fact, it’s even possible that in the past 20 years I’ve gone backwards quite a few times. Subtract the backwards dumbness and my 2.5 number is more like 1.0 (again, just another random).

Is this how it works for everyone or am I one of the unfortunate ones that ends up not just a shriveled up crazy lady, but missing the sageness and wisdom that I thought I’d automatically be granted. It’s not fair if you ask me. If we put in the time, we should automatically earn great intelligence.

I probably won’t go into much detail about the ridiculously dumb choices I’ve made lately, but I will say that I’ve learned from them. I’m not sure this is limited to single mothers or single parents. I hope not. And I hope I’m not the only one that seems to be making the same mistakes over and over again.

I don’t know. I did pick a pretty nice theme this time, though…