The entire day I went around to their houses and visited with them for a few hours each. It was so refreshing to talk to them. It may seem weird to think that talking to my grandparents was refreshing but it was. Just getting to visit and talk to them about my college experience and hearing all of their life experiences relieved a lot of the stress from last week. This struck me because I didn't think talking to my family would "relive stress" ha. I knew getting away from school and chillin in my house would relieve help but surprisingly my stress was relieved by visiting and talking to my family.
I began to think about this as I drove back to JMU. I never realized the importance of family. When I would think of stories of wisdom, there is a one story that always comes to mind. It starts with a very knowledgeable man who decides to travel around the world to seek for a teacher that can tell him the meaning of life. He ends up climbing this huge mountain and after talking with the teacher finds that the meaning of life is all around him that there was no need to climb all the way to the top of a mountain to find it. There are many variations of that story and I just did a very very rough and brief summary of it, but I feel it has a lot of truth. We don't need to go to the top of mountains to find wisdom, its right there under our noses. Its with our family. We can learn so much by just talking with our family and listening about their past experiences. What a weekend!
Here is at least on of the many versions of the story I summarized. http://www.thinkers.net/forum/showthread.php?s=53a6bef91a0051165cd3b563696b0bcc&t=938
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