Sophia

I had a student named Sophia. That was many, many years ago. Her intelligence impressed me. Her questions provoked me. Her indifference intrigued me.
I was then a very young Sister with so many high ideals, wanting to change the world, trying hard to make a difference to the lives of my students who, at the onset of their youth, were anything other than interested in "a life with a higher purpose".
Many years have passed since then. I have changed. I am sure that my students have changed. Life moved on, it still moves on. What I considered brilliant ideas and strategies as regards educating my students, or as regards life in general, I now consider as "hot air", as a former professor usually described our expositions.
Life teaches us that what really matters are not the ideas that just stay in our heads, no matter how profound they may be.
It is life itself that proves what to us matter most. There are no textbook solutions to life's "exams". How we handle them reveals what we have learned.
And this learning is called wisdom, "sophia".