Well I'm getting old, I turn 20 today but I still feel like a 16 year old.
Some say that with age people become wiser but, as the hands of time have ticked away I've realized that I know nothing. It's funny, some spend most of their lives in school, with learning as much as possible being their main objective, but even though a big portion of our lives are spent inside classrooms, we hardly learn anything.
When not sitting inside a classroom we attend the most underrated school, the world around us. And it is here where we acquire the most valuable information. We don't realize what value the lessons we learn in the real world have.
We learn so much throughout the course of our lives but, all though it seems like a whole lot it isn't much.
There are people who look for the answer to the ultimate question, "What is the purpose of my life?" When on your death bed you'll realize what the purpose is or was. Live life. It's that simple, I believe.
Are you LIVING?
Just a reflection caused by another completed year of life.
-Osvaldo Hernandez Chavez
[quote]PanchoPantera wrote:
Some say that with age people become wiser[/quote]
Don’t worry about being wiser just yet. That starts around your mid-twenties.
I have lately been of the opinion that wisdom happens in layers about every 12 to 13 years, and it’s sort of like flipping a switch. You just wake up one morning, and you understand things differently. You’re not really sure why or how, you just do. This is primarily based on an interesting study conducted in the 1990s.
Basically, researchers tested maturity levels in 14, 16, 18, and 21 year old subjects – government sponsored, to evaluate the likely effects of raising the driving age to 18. It was already well-established that a significant maturity difference was observable in 25 year old subjects.
End result: there was no discernible difference in maturity among the subjects. None. They may as well have all been the same age.
I think that’s a good strong argument for lowering most of those ages to 14, myself – driving age, voting age, drinking age, sexual consent. Why not? If 14 year olds are every bit as mature as 21 year olds, then I say they should have the same rights and privileges.
Congrats man!! I know that you can feel old if you think about it, but when people ask me my age I still have to think about it, I haven’t changed my attitude since I was like 16, so I don’t feel older, and from the sounds of it neither do you (thats a good thing)