Explain the philosophical/religious significance of AGE and the decisions we make based around it?

Question

By this, I mean, explain the significance of age in REGARDS to decisions we make through out our life time. Is it fair that we constantly make decisions for our future, where when the future arrives, many times we look back on the decision we made when we were young and realize it has no relevance to our future goals? That, as we are young, we never fully understand what we will want in the future, therefore impairing our ability to make decisions for our future selves? If so, what may be the purpose of aging altogether, in your opinion? What can we learn from our decision making mistakes if it is inevitable?
Serious answerers only, please.

Answer 1

Age yield experience.

The first time you touch a hot stove, you burn yourself, because you lack experience. The next time you see a stove, you know better than to touch it.

The same principal applies to all aspects of life. The older you are, the more experience in more activities you have. That is not to say that a person can have more experience or knowledge in specific aspects or techinques while they are younger, but overall, age will give more informed decision making skills.

Answer 2

Well this is a trick question I think age 33 is just wrong I do understand why they say that age it just does not make sense I mean why not 32 or 34 it is all in the perception of the times if you read it it says that they asked people over 40 and a lot of times people do not remember stuff that happened over a long period. To do this study correctly they should have asked a lot more people and I will bet that that they did not consider other criteria like gender and ethnicity into the solution so their survey is flawed. In fact unless the survey did provide it, but not the news report mention in the post you do not even know how they go the age of 33 as the happiest age was it by: Mean (add up all the numbers and then divide by the number of numbers); Median (the "middle" value in the list in numerical order it is the middle value); Mode (the value that occurs most often). I would say that a lot of people will say at least 5 -10 years ago it was the happiest time of their life. I do think that there are different times that a person can be the happiest in their life as people do tend to forget and feel again very happy at certain times. First I think age 5 and below most of the time people do not remember this age very clearly so it may not be mentioned that often but it an age where you have no worries and you living for the day making it my opinion the happiest time of your life afterwords you start school and pressure is placed on you to start a life. Then there is the age of 16 for a lot of girls it is their sweet 16 party and a life changer as you are now more trusted with responsibilities by your parents and you now can get a drivers license making it the time you have what every teenager wants the ability to have Freedom to go where you want since you can drive there yourself. At this age you have you first serious relationship and most likely the first time you had sexual intercourse. Then there is the age of 18 you get this time when you first vote and are considered an adult. Age 21 when you are legal to drink makes a lot of people happy. As for me I was happiest around the age of 16 I was still young and happy just graduated from High School had my first sexual intercourse with a girl I liked and was able to Drive whenever and wherever I needed to go. Went to college at 16 and had a blast.

Answer 3

Perhaps you are right to a point, but aging happens whether you plan for it or not (or plan incorrectly). You grow as you age and things change, but you should be glad you are around to care. It may not be fair, but it is what happens.

You ask what we can learn, if we didn't make the mistakes we couldn't learn from them. Making mistakes early is precisely what limits are mistakes later, so they are necessary. And that is the purpose of aging.

We will look back and we will have regrets, but we will also look back and have fond memories. That one girl that got away may mess with us, but that one we did get and married and had a family with will cheer us back up. If you quit making decisions because of what could be a mistake, you'll also quit making decisions that may turn out great. We must make the best of the situation.

Answer 4

Great question,
I'm 42 and my decisions about myself and for myself are based upon my responsibilities. I have a family to take care of, so my decisions are based around my house and job. I have to be able to provide for my family. I have to make the mortgage and car payments. I have to buy clothes and food for them. So many of my decisions are financial based.

I want to learn to ride a motorcycle, but if I should die on one or become injured, how will that affect my young son? He won't know his father as well as he should and he might not be able to go to college.

Politically I vote for people that are going to protect my interest and my family. I'm leaning more toward environment and national debt issues because I want the USA to be a good place for my son to raise his children.

When I was younger, I didn't have to worry about those future responsibilities so I acted and thought differently. My decisions were based on immediate gratification. I didn't think that doing my homework was important, but now I know that it would have made a difference in my grades, then what college I went to, then later what job I'd have.

For a young person, I can tell you that the small decisions that you make now WILL effect your future. Good habits in health, eating, homework, reading, and even your sex life will effect your future happiness.

Answer 5

That's a little wordy, and you seem to have answered your own question. Just in case, here goes. Don't confuse age with wisdom.

We plan for the future so that we continue working now, but as we gain new experiences and life lessons, values and goals are understandably re-evaluated, and often reassigned in light of information not previously available. There is nothing wrong with this, and in fact it's much wiser than blindly plodding down your original path regardless of whatever new information may come by. As people age, the wise ones will re-evaluate, and others will continue to plod, so it's unfair to link wisdom directly than age. It just happens that older people have had more opportunities to learn.

One helpful tip to sidestep many mistakes while young is to listen carefully and respectfully to one's elders- realizing that they have already jumped many of the hurdles in life still ahead of you. Listen not only to their successes, but also to their failures, and what they learned from them. Especially listen to the ones who did change their goals, they learned the most.

Answer 6

We age because of disease and we are confronted with disease because of sin. We are concerned about the past (for which we can do nothing about) and the future (which we cannot control) when we should be focused on the present. God is a God of the eternal present. We should be living with him in the eternal present. God does not care about our pasts, only with what we are doing in the present. The past was one second ago and the future will be one second from now. So, you see why focusing on the forever present is so important. What we do in the present controls what our past record was and the direction that our future will take us.

Answer 7

well, in my opinion, time is actually circular, it goes in circles. then there are different dimentions, and each of thm is unique in the way it funcitons, so the creatures there see time differently. There's no such hting as future or past, but just time. we are all wandering souls looking for a body to be into, until we find it, in some dimetion or another. in our 3D dimention, we are too slow to realize this, but in dreams we do, when we're traveling at a faster speed you know? so, this future/past thing is just an illusion based on our slow dimeniton.

Answer 8

We spend our lives in search of happiness, which is completely elusive. As we age, the things we perceive to be associated with happiness change, so we change our goals. In the end, we all have the exact same fate. Kind of makes an argument for living for the moment.

Answer 9

read ecclesiastes 3 it should answer your question