Learning activity 4

Evidence: Wisdom comes with experience

Presented by
Evelin Parada

SENA
2018
Wisdom comes with experience

This story took place in Mosquera. I had gone for a walk with a couple of friend’s
right after my finished work week. The walk was in a farm of an elderly couple who
rented farms and earn extra money because they were pensioners. The man is
probably 70 years old and the woman is 65 years old. They are hard workers and
live in a placid state of acceptance and gratitude that is only achievable through all
the experience acquired throughout their lives.

I am a morning person. I like to wake up early. The second morning I was There, I
got up and went to take an aromatic. The lady who helped the gentlemen was not
so lady was young and the gentlemen, they were already awake. The lady who
helped Messrs. Carlos and Maria told me that it seemed something nostalgic and
asked me if I wanted to talk about it. I told her that things in the house were not
right with my husband and that he had a lot of workload. I do not know why I felt
the need to open up before her. Until that moment, I had tried to avoid the subject.
Anyway, I told him I did not know what to do. I told her that I felt somewhat
disoriented. She listened patiently until I had nothing more to say.

She looked at me and told me it was not okay to feel that way, but then he said it
was not a good idea to think so much about that. She said that we always want
answers like why life becomes or is in favor of everyday life, but most of the time
people do not know what is going to happen in life. She told me that with a peace
and tranquility I felt that this would be a strength for a new beginning, when she
told me that I embraced her and she also felt like a novel about the Guadalupe
rose and from that day I thank her for her words of strength. Wherever she is, I
hope she is very well.