March 12- The Road Map Of Life

"There is no better a road map of life than this: from knowledge comes wisdom, from wisdom comes strength, from strength comes courage, and from courage comes peace. Trust, faith, belief, hope, and love are just tools that help us along the way."- me
I started off with this philosophical quote I came up with today so that all my readers can see that not only am I good with giving advice along with writing poetry and novels, but I am also quite a philosopher when I put my mind to it. I sometimes come up with these quotes as I am pondering the many mysteries of life and love to share them once I get it in my mind. These quotes are not just random musings, but can help anyone who reads them to learn what I had to learn on my own. To be a good teacher, it is not just coming up with the quote, but knowing how to break it down and explain the meanings behind it. All the famous philosophers never really explained what they were meaning, but left it to the readers to figure it out. I, on the other hand, have come to learn how one thing can be interpreted many different ways as I have already explained many times before in my previous entries. It is for this reason that I now will break each section down and explain it to those who may be reading and wondering what I am trying to say. Let me begin.
1. There is no better a road map of life than this- Basically life is most often referred as a road we all travel every day. "Life is like a road that you travel on," was sung in Rascal Flatts' "Life is a Highway". I say that what follows is like a road map that can guide those who follow my map and keep them from getting lost in their search for peace.
2. from knowledge comes wisdom- As people, we are always the weakest when we don't have any knowledge or understanding of something. It is always best to begin your journey toward peace learning what needs to be learned and then you will get wisdom when you apply that knowledge to get you to the next checkpoint.
3. from wisdom comes strength- The next checkpoint is when you use your wisdom of what you learned and gain strength from that wisdom. A lot of others will say that strength is measured by muscles and body, but they are wrong. Strength comes from having wisdom to know when and how to fight as well as when and how not to. After strength is achieved through wisdom, you will see that getting to the half-way mark to peace is much easier than getting from the start to the first checkpoint.
4. from strength comes courage- This is the half-way mark on the road of life toward peace. It is also again one that many will try and say I am wrong on. Those who do will believe that it is courage that gives you strength, are the ones who do not know what true strength is. They believe not only what I mentioned above but also that strength is power. Through courage they gain this power over others, but they will never have peace because they will constantly have to be on guard for others like them who wish to challenge their power. This is why I say the strength I know to be strength brings courage. With courage, nothing can deter you from completing your journey.
5. from courage comes peace- Courage is not being afraid and knowing that you will not be moved from finding the peace you so long for. Once you have reached all the above points in life for the thing you were finding peace for, you will still have new things come up that will once again require you to repeat the steps because it is mainly the fear of the unknowing that causes our peace to be wavered until we regain the knowledge, wisdom, strength and courage to get past each individual new thing we do not understand.
6. Trust, faith, belief, hope, and love are just tools to help us along the way.- This basically lists in order of importance the different tools we can use in life to help us along our journey until our last day on Earth. Trust is most important because we all need to trust one another as well as ourselves in what we believe. Faith is built stronger upon the trust that is our foundation. Belief needs faith to settle on because without that faith our beliefs are dead and can be shaken down by anyone who believes differently or even by events in our lives we may find hard to overcome. Hope comes from our belief because everyone has rights to believe in anything that gives them hope to go on, and no one has the right to force anyone to change their belief. The final tool is love which can be gotten when we all come together and stop judging each other for our differences in skin color, outer appearance, gender, sexual preference, faith, actions, interests, and what we may feel like inside. I call trust, faith, belief, hope, and love each an individual tool to help us along the way, but as you can plainly see each prior tool is needed to create the next tool down from it, so they are all connected as one in a way.
I hope this blog has filled you with something to use in life. In parting, take care and be safe always everyone.