I have always wanted to start a collection of Mexican idioms, which all Mexicans,born there or here have grown up hearing. We have an idiom or saying for everything, and I would like to make them known along with their meanings or psychological significance. I will start with my favorite one "Mas sabe el diablo por viejo,que por diablo," The devil is more the wisest because he is old, rather than because he is the devil.
I think the meaning of this one is well understood, and the older I get~no pun intended~the more it becomes true. Experience, more than any schooling or education,makes us wiser. The older we get, or the more we experience, the more we know, the more intuitive,if you may, we become. We can read people better,we can for see the outcome of situations, etc... I remember as a teen always thinking my mom was some kind of witch, or fortune teller, because everything she would warn me about would come true. I was at constant war with my mother, but now I understand her, I have become like her, because of experience.How I wish I would have listened, just the same way I now wish my kids would listen. But my kids see me now as I saw my mother then, as a nag. So we need to accept as parents, that our children need to live their own life, experience things, fall, just as they did off those bikes. make their own mistakes, so that one day they can and will, become all the wiser. We can try in the friendliest, lovingly way possible to give our best advice, but it is up to them to learn through experience,just as we have.
