We should embrace our life because of all my choices, both good and not so good, have brought me to today. Knowing that I truly know nothing, as Socrates tells us, makes me capable of learning at any age.

We live in interesting times, but there are a number of things that I just do not understand. And I think in a sense, that s a good thing. Socrates, famously, at his trial, was accused of being the wisest man in the world, and his rebuttal was that, yes,…