When you are old you know what to do, but you just can't do it anymore. I don't mean sex, I mean having the ability to do in your middle years(middle? how many of us live to a hundred?)what came easily in your twenties. I envy my nine year old twins. All of that is ahead of them.
2006-10-10 14:51:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I believe that it depends on the person doing the "wasting". We all value and see our lives differently. Perhaps, there are many youths out there that tend to live their lives recklessly simply because they can, but nonetheless, there are still those that hold value to the choices they make. Similarly, there are older people that are bitter simply and do not pass down their knowledge simply because they cannot get past the fact that time has surely past them. But then again, there are those "Tuesdays with Morrie" types that simply love to revel in their lives and experiences. I think this question is really dependent upon how we choose to live our lives. I am young indeed, but what I can tell you is that I am not wasting away my youth.. I'm treasuring it as I know it is fleeting. We begin dying the very moment we are born and I don't intend to waste a single moment of it. I want to be able to get to the point where I "can" take my wisdom and pass it on.
2006-10-10 16:32:25 · answer #1 · answered by KIm Z 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life experiences does not necessarily make us wiser. It is hoped it will. I have met some pretty savy young people. I think one could replace wisdom with common sense which is lacking in many young people as well as the some elderly.
Where it is noticeable is in the physical abilities. I find it seems to change every decade and I notice the things I have a harder time doing now instead of when I was younger.
I believe the way it is set up is pretty good.
The old teach the young and the young do things for the old.
2006-10-10 22:39:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The what? Speak up, when I was your age kids didn't mumble all the time, why I remember back in.....
I never met an old person who wisdom was wasted on or a young person who didn't waste his/her youth.
2006-10-10 21:56:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
wisdom wasted on the old,i think thats completely true, but youth may not be wasted on the young depending on how lucky the person is.
2006-10-10 21:55:27 · answer #4 · answered by odd_reality 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't have wisdom until you are mature. You have more smarts, but the body has lost its youth. When you are young the body is full of life, but the wisdom is not there...... So ironic, that's why so many people wish they could go back.....just go back...............
2006-10-10 22:04:03 · answer #5 · answered by Just me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm wiser now that I'm older but what I really want to know is:
will you send me a picture of yourself in your swirly skirt and swirly blouse? Don't worry about the hairy legs. my stomach hurts
2006-10-11 21:38:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anne Teak 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
neither is completly wasted on the other. both need to listen to the other again.
2006-10-10 21:57:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither is wasted on either.
2006-10-10 21:53:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a time-tested and failed cliche.
2006-10-10 22:03:14 · answer #9 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not all of us keep their wisdom,alzheimers,etc.
Life is what it is,Grasshopper.
2006-10-10 23:28:45 · answer #10 · answered by Rich B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋