There is an inconsistency in the original
concept of Worldly Lessons. I kept thinking about it for some time, admittedly
trying to convince myself it didn’t sport any glaring crack that required a
whole text just to try to clean up the confusion it would bring. Clearly it
didn’t work.
The problem is that while I learn things from
the world, they were all very different in one level or another. Still, I
couldn’t come to think any of them wasn’t an actual worldly lesson, as I felt
they did share the primordial and most important similarity. But there are
differing elements that have their relevance.
The main divergence I see is that most lessons
weren’t actually expressed by the author. It is and will forever be a mystery
whether authors were aware of the layers and concepts I’ve noticed. I have the
slight feeling these cautionary worldly lessons, the mistakes the author made
and I hope I can avoid, wasn’t really on purpose, but the simple fact that it
was there for me to learn a lesson, makes it count as a Worldly Lesson.
However, there are some few that are different,
as they are directly taught lessons. I’ll call them Worldly Teachings. It
wasn’t some undercurrent of their work I was labeling. It wasn’t something I
absorbed from analysis but ideas fully perceived by the author and explained to the reader/viewer.
