Wisdom?

Sometimes when I look back in retrospection, I realize that if I had the wisdom I have today, I would have tuned my life in a different way starting 6 years back, and taken different decisions, so that I could have a better present. But unfortunately, it is supposedly not possible to go back in time. It is this wisdom which all of us call "the lessons of experience".

What actually irks me is not that I did not do the most optimal things in the past, but the fact that I have no idea as to whether the doings of my present are the most optimal for the future... Another truth is, no two individuals tread upon the same path in life, so nobody can give you the exact lessons which you would need. We basically need to use our past knowledge (wisdom) to take the right decision in the present and to estimate the future... but sadly, this Bayesian principle does not work in real life owing to the infinite order non linearities in modeling real life... that's when we start believing in destiny... :)

Why is it that when you truly learn something, it can never be used anymore or it's just too late? If only the movie "The Butterfly Effect" was doable...! If only someone went against the Theory of Relativity and traveled along the negative time axis! As somebody quoted once "Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced."

I sometimes wonder if Wisdom or Intelligence is more important.