• If we want to know how old are you. We look at the birth certificate.
• If we want o know how clever you are, we have to look at progress card.
• If we want to know how heavy you are, we find out your weight.

*But if we want to know how wise you are, we cannot measures it in inches, in kg or in years. This we have to find out from many small things you do.

Ability to wait

• People who are wise know how to look for bigger and greater happiness than the small ones. They will pass the fun that they can have now in order to get bigger happiness afterwards.

For example

a) Swetha continued her studies after school rather than taking up a job in a factory.

b) She thought that if she worked in a factory she will be able to earn at once.

c) She would be able to buy new clothes.

*But she also knew that if she continued her education properly she would have something better for the rest of her life. Children want everything at once. People who have grown up are willing to wait. They have patience.

Decisive

• Some children change their mind very fast. They are not able to decide anything or to stick to any decision. People who are wise are able to think are able to think clearly, to decide well, and to stick to their decision.

Stable

• Wise children are not satisfied by just doing a work. They like to do their work well. Ramu would rather aim high and miss, than to aim low and make it. A grown-up wise person does constantly change jobs, friends, or anything he has. Such a person sticks to his job and ensures that it is finished. This he will do despite the difficulties and problems he encounters. A weak child instead gives up at the first sign of any difficulty. Such a child can hardly be trusted as to whether he would have the same friends or the same work tomorrow.

Dependable

• A matured or a wise person is dependable, reliable and does what is expected of him. He always keeps his word. He means what he says and says what he means. When Savita went to the market to buy cabbages, on the way she forget what she had to buy and how much she had to buy. When she reached the market, instead of buying cabbages she bought onions. She got a good scolding for it. Ranga was asked by his mother to post a letter. After one week when mother washed his clothes she found a letter in his pocket. He had posted the letter in his pocket. Ranga and Savita were unreliable people. They were still very childish in their ways.

Admit your mistakes

• Grown up people never hesitate to admit if they have done any wrong. When they make a mistake they take the blame on themselves and say, ``I am sorry’’. Children, who are not wise, often do not admit that they have done something wrong. When something goes wrong the blame everything and everybody else rather than themselves.

Large heartedness

• Babita knows that her friend Sravani is clever than she is. Instead of trying to be as clever as her friend, Babita is jealous of her. She tells everyone that Sravani is using unfair means to be the best in the class. The next time Babita stands in front of the mirror, she should look in her eyes to see if the green-eyed monster of jealousy is within her. Everyone is jealous at sometime or the other. But, if we do not check on ourselves, this jealousy will make us dislike others and finally it will make us dislike our self.

Ability to share

• Ram had a friend his name is Sham. He shared all his troubles with him. He also shared his mischief with him. He shared all the gossip he heard, with him. But when Ram had something good to tell, he went to elsewhere with his other friends. Ram is hardly a reliable friend. Do you share both your happy and sad times with your friend?

*As you grow, more and more decisions will be yours to make independently

*Decide to be the best person you want to be and then work on it.

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