Words of Wisdom
When we're young, we think we know everything about the world. Until we encounter fraud and jealousy and crime and love and all things big and small that come with being human. How can you write about what you don't know? You speculate. You pretend. You use big words to sound important, but they only serve to show how inexperienced and pompous you really are. You can't fake experience. You have to live day by day, year by year, until maybe you discover a kernel of wisdom that helps you make sense of the world existing around you.
I could not have written this 30, 20, even 10 years ago. I hadn't experienced enough of the world to know what it was and how it would affect me and my relationship with all of its many parts. I wrote in ideas formed in my head, not from my gut or from my heart.
But you have to start somewhere. Understand that you will always have both limitations and limitless potential. If you can manage to balance the two, you will not only be writing, but you will be living well.