I think one of the biggest bits of actual wisdom I get from being older, is knowing that wisdom, enlightenment, insight and technical know how are going to come from people younger than me as well as people older than me. It's sort of the flip side of knowing that most of the people older than me, these adults who were supposed to be the experts on everything, were just abusive bastards who didn't know shit. Wiser is wiser, that's the part that counts imho.