Why at forty?
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For some days now I haven't attend to so many post that I suppose to have gone through. That's to say that I wasn't active on the site due to our power supply that is not steady in our area. Though I really enjoy staying in the place but lack of power supply isn't making the place looks lively. It's not everyone that can do without light, where there is power supply it's makes life more easier for people. Like I have said already if I haven't gone through your post, pardon me I will make sure that I try my very own best to go through some post as much as I can.
Let's look at today's topic. There is a saying that our people normally use to say. I would believe that a lot of people might of heard of the phrase right in some other part of the world. They likely use to say that a fool at forty is a fool forever. How do you understand the phrase if perhaps you might have heard about it. Or if you're just hearing the word. My question was, what is really the meaning of the phrase and why do elders mostly use to say it. When I didn't have a clear understanding about it, I was thinking the other way round that if people call you a fool up to forty times or if people that sees you as a fool are up to forty people then such person is a fool in totality.
It was until when I grow up a little and start asking questions that I have a clear knowledge about the phrase 'a fool at forty is a fool forever'. This implies that if a certain person becomes a fool right from his or her youthful age, which in my place a person's youthful age start from 18years and ends at 40years. So if you become a fool right from your childhood, youthful age and to your adult age. It therefore means that you will be a fool forever. This is because you have stayed right from your year one on planet earth and getting to your year forty and you are still the same without changing. With their sense and through their experience that they have gone through, they really understand what exactly they are saying. It would be very possible for a man of 40 year old to do most things that a man of 20 to 25 years old suppose be doing.
Why a fool at forty is said to be a fool forever. Our people would say that it's good to dry the herbs when there's sun shine. Another one they say is look for the black goat when it is day time not when it night time. What are they simply talking about? They are saying that there is a time for everything under the sun, and must use it right. We can't expect that a forty years man can be running a speed that a 25 years man would be running. Age matters a lot so once you're left behind that is your own. Before they use to say that life is not all about competition. I doubt the saying the very day that someone who always took first position in my class was pushed back to fourth position. I asked myself does it mean that he wasn't reading? Even me in question I was weighing him to know his weak point. So people are coming after you once you miss a step you would would be even watching their backs overtaking you.
Why would a fool at forty become a fool forever? Forty years is when a man youthful age ends, it's therefore means that if he couldn't achieve what he was ought to achieved while he was a young person. The adult age wouldn't be a proper time for him to get all those achievements. Seasons come and go, we do not expect a season to last forever else time would be meaningless. Since no one can stop time even if you can stop the one in your house. That's the clock you're are stopping not the time once it's the right time for the day the sun would come and everything would be in it's place. We have the sowing season and the harvesting season. While the say that a fool at fort is a fool forever is that if a man didn't sow seed at his youthful age there's nothing he will stand to harvest in his adult age which is his harvesting time.
Why at forty? A fool at forty will continue to be a fool. His present age is never a time he will like to listen to other people. It will just see it as an injury time in the soccer game, I think those who are use to football will understand the terms. This is just like someone who keeps making the same mistake over and over. We know that the past mistake can not be corrected. It's just that we learn lessons from it. But when mistake is excess it's become a disease to the person who is making it. A person who takes advice is wise, but a person who hate correction and advice doesn't know anything. The fool do not always takes advice from the wise. The always full with pride like they know all, but they are left with nothing in the end.
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