Whoever forgets what is behind her and what is in front of her has already forgotten the beauty of this moment. What is behind her is her past and what is in front of her is her aim. And with these she is wise.
Without consciousness, there is no reality; without memory, there is only repeatedly forgotten assumptions of lost identity.
Consciousness means being aware of wrongdoing by definition, such as being aware of drinking too much alcohol is harming her. As long as she is aware of it and then staying away from it, she is conscious.
Memory means the remembrance of experiences, by remembering past incidents and future expectations she remembers herself. If she is not remembering, she is in danger of losing her consciousness hence her reality.
The consciousness and the life are born together. If she loses her consciousness what matters if there is a world. If she loses the world what matters if her consciousness stay. Both of them ends in misery. When one is being destroyed the other is bound to fall with the other altogether. She who loses the world will in a moment lose herself; she who loses herself will in a moment lose the world. At the end rests a void. Nothingness. Something is greater than nothing even if that something is not what she is. It may even be that she may be detesting it, she will detest more and seek what she was detesting it.
To prevent all these, she must learn to Love Herself and Love The World around her. Loving the world is not about consuming it, it is about the appreciation towards it. Her saying, look at this beautiful tree, it has such lovely flowers is a good example for this kind of appreciation. Loving herself is not about fulfilling her desires constantly, it is about being as she is.
Bear all these in mind, meditate over it. Having memory and consciousness is greater than using any kind of drugs whether it is alcohol, cigarette, weed, or something that is not yet known. Don’t stumble where most stumbles and she gets ahead of eighty percent in one step. Other twenty percent will not wish her to stumble and she will find herself in them the more she interact with them. The world will not want her dead because without her it cannot live, it will support her and feed her like any endosymbiosis. The world is her bios and she is its mitochondria in this case. Let her do the work of goodness by being aware of wrongdoing and the bios works together to complete all that she is lacking.
Thence, the aware worker of a system is a wise leader. She is a wise woman as long as she protects herself and what is around her with motherly compassion.