jorgE630 on Nostr: What grants a man ability to discern worth? Such judgement lay not in his learning ...

What grants a man ability to discern worth? Such judgement lay not in his learning nor in the measure of his years but in some deeper grain of knowledge that time and other elements had carved into the nerve. He comes to it through long watching of things both brutal and beautiful, through seeing how the world burned away pretense like morning fog. Such knowing was earned in the crucible of days where each moment demanded judgment between what was real and what was merely seeming. A wisdom that belonged to those who had stood in the presence of both death and dawn and learned to read the difference between fool's gold and truth in the unforgiving light.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​