Benjamin Franklin: 5 Things Smart People Understand About Life That Un-Smart People Don’t
“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”- Franklin.
Picture this:
You’re a small-town boy whose parents could only afford two years of your formal education. All your friends attend school and enjoy new school supplies (water bottles, lunch boxes) every season while your family struggles to make ends meet.
It hurts!
A fire burns into your heart, not because of jealousy, but because life is unfair towards you. This is the story of Benjamin Franklin- a small-town boy from Boston. Franklin was the fifteenth of his seventeenth siblings, yet he did what we can’t do now in the era of mobile phones.
G. Michael Hopf, the author of the novel Post Apocalyptic, says:
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”
Life is an endless loop — a circle. Therefore, it’s important to understand life before it’s too late.
Below are five things smart people understand about life that unsmart people don’t.