WHEN TAKING A PERSPECTIVES ON AGING CLASS; WE WERE ASKED HOW DOES ONE DEFINE WISDOM RELATED TO AGING :
I Included my two cents with the following:
It seems wisdom can be defined as having the skills in dealing with daily living, having lived long enough time in life to attain experience, factual knowledge, being able to see problems in different ways, seeing that everything in life and the goals/values are relative to something else, or may not be important to others based on their perspectives or experience, and being able to deal with things that are unknown or uncertain..... what would you say?

I believe wisdom is the accumulation of knowledge that comes with the experiences of having lived many years. So, in my mind, it does come with age. It is the sum of all the roads we have traveled, all the mistakes we have made, all the learning we have acquired, all the choices we have made, all the people we have met, all the things we have heard and seen-beautiful and ugly, all of our struggles and pain, all of our happiness and success. It is the sum of everything we have encountered in this life and through living and learning from our mistakes and mistakes of others, we end up with a better understanding of what life is about. It takes years and experiences to gain wisdom. Wisdom comes from failure, triumph,sadness, and a little madness. I don't think you can acquire wisdom without years. To be wise is to know oneself.And that takes a lot of years of experiences and searching. The young can be be smart, intelligent, seekers of knowledge but wisdom is something that can't be learned. It is acquired through the years of going about the business of living.