When given enough time for contemplation I can sometimes pull off some perspective that may sound like wisdom. The proof is in the pudding, as they say. Thoughts are grand things that can sometimes be convincingly put into words, but implementation is the proof there is more to it than words, "living as if". The older I get, the more convinced I become that that's the only thing that matters. The rest, including my own unlived ideas, are smoke and mirrors.