"things...long settled"

"...things...long settled."   So mused a friend.

I come to places and time in my life where I encounter things that I thought were settled years ago.  I identify with his thought.

In my 56 years I have learned many things.  And lately I lament that I've forgotten many things.  The things I forget don't  get put into practice.  So it seems that I never learned the lesson in the first place.   And yet, at one time, I was practicing that lesson. Very frustrating and humbling to have to recall a long forgotten lesson and put it into practice once again.

Very humbling.