At eighteen I knew everything….

What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind?

At eighteen I knew everything

My mind was quite made up.

I’d worked things out, I understood

And my ideas were right.

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I had little sympathy

For people not like me

I had everything worked out

Why could they not see?

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I was law abiding

Did very little wrong

But sadly so judgemental

With little love in me.

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I learned I had to loosen up

And live my life a little

We get things wrong

We make mistakes

And should forgive each other.

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Now I am much older

There’s plenty I’ve screwed up.

I’ve travelled round the world a bit

My eyes are opened up.

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There are so many stories

So many different lives.

I can‘t know what they’re dealing with

Or understand each life.

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I’ve learned to be more tolerant

To know that just like me

We‘re all flawed individuals

But each in different ways.