An Expert?

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 The other day I wrote about being on expert on tobacco.  At my age I should be an expert on many things.  I should be an expert on life and living.  But regardless of what Smoking Pipes thinks I’m hardly an expert on anything knowable.  I have a long way to go at being an expert.  I know less about romance, for example, than most men.  One never becomes an expert at love and those who think they are are just fooling themselves.  

I’m kinda an expert at loving my wife, for example.  But that took years and not months.  She had to teach me and I can be a slow learner.  Sometimes I forget what I’ve learned.  Yes, when it comes to tobacco I have tried many.  And regardless of what smoking pipes thinks I am not an expert on tobaccos.  I am not an expert on life.  I am not an expert on love.  

Everyone is supposed to be good at something.  I’m good at just being myself.  But I work on it daily.  Maybe I’m an expert on peace and love.  Maybe I’m an expert on Angels.  I don’t know.  Otherwise I’d be boasting.  I have nothing to boast about.  I just work on being a better version of myself.  And THAT is a full-time job.  My Angels didn’t make me perfect.  They made me a better version of myself.  Live with someone and you find their imperfections.  

Love someone and you find YOUR imperfections.  No love is perfect.  I wish it were.  But my examples aren’t human.  So, am I PART Angel?  I’ll never believe so.  I’ll never believe that I’m perfect.  If I were perfect I’d have no insecurities.  But I try.  And that is all any of us can do.  Life is about striving.  If we think we achieved the highest what’s the point of going on?  

I have a lot to strive for because my examples were perfect.  I’m no longer human isn’t what I believe about myself.  I have faced death.  Twice.  But each experience made me better.  Each experience taught me I have a lot to live for.  God wasn’t ready for me. I had a lot yet to learn.  Life is about learning.  After 50 years smoking a pipe, I’m still learning.  I might be an expert on tobacco, but there are so many blends out there I have yet to try.  Today it is my Gettysburg pipe with Good Stuff Gold, and my coffee this morning is Stumptown Homestead coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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