The youth find everything great and amazing!! Why can't we retain the same attitude through the aging years?

Question

Why does age seem to douse the fire of the youth in terms of enthusiasm, curiosity, excitement and even bold straightforwardness?

Answer 1

I agree with you and, I think, one of the reasons is concerned with at least two factors. One, it is their experiences the people with aging years have encountered or done before and they've since been good lessons for them to be more careful or not to be too bold. Two, it is something in the name of 'chemistry' inside those people (including us) in which it responds instantly or slowly in accordance with age. In other words, the youth with fresh, young and bright tend to respond like a burning fire while the aging ones with stale, old and dim tend to respond like a heap of burnt charcoal.

Answer 2

If we have lived 40 years let's say. Then many things have happened to us during that lifetime. Some happenings make us upbeat like weddings, births, material things and doing things we enjoy...

but then comes the things that break us down in life: disappointments, divorce, death, taxes and failing at a job.

Some people bounce back and keep right on going making different adjustments..while others use substances and give up on life...cannot see a rainbow or a reason for living....and there are some in the middle not going to extremes...

Life is like a recipe...you need flour and eggs and water and some spices to make a cake if you leave out one of these it's going to not be the best tasting or quality....

Getting back to your question about youth...they have not lived long enough to have anything tarnish or destroy their dreams and happiness ....it might be a feud with their friends...but they keep playing and hoping and dreaming the next second...Youth is a wonderful time of life no worry about the roof over your head or the food you are going to eat in most cases....the average young person can enjoy life and keep looking up and to the future.

Answer 3

When you're young, you strain against restrictions imposed on you by your parents & society. You think the 'real world' is great and amazing. While life can undoubtedly be great and amazing, it more often than not, is quite harsh.

Bitter experiences without the maturity and insight to see beyond them or to learn from them, can transform that enthusiasm into cynicism.

Even without bitter experiences, I think that we are conditioned into behaving like 'adults', especially if we get pulled into the corporate / professional world..... to be taken seriously, we have to be more sober in expressing ourselves. I doubt many adults could get away with jumping about and expressing their emotions as effusively as the youth do....we'd very likely be considered either stupid or stoned out of our minds.

So its probably not that the fire has been doused, its just that we don't let it burn too bright.

Answer 4

id have to dispute the premise here based on five points

1- no one crys more than very young children.
2- mental illness, which can be debilitating and lifelong can most easily be triggered during the formative years.
3- emo is almost synonamous with teenager
4- young people take more drugs than older people (and/or yet felt the side effects of prolonged abuse)
5- old people can be realy happy, as opposed to simply energetic.

Answer 5

because life happens and we live and learn as we go ,through our own and through the mistakes of others.So everything is not exciting when you figure out the dangers or consequences of your actions.

Answer 6

you think because your older u've seen it all and that now ur life shud be all about business and wat we call "adult life"
if u would let yourself fall back and relax maybe talk to a "young person" then you might be able to see life how u used to

Answer 7

It's a choice that we make. It doesn't have to.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 8

experience makes for cynicism, even positive experiences

Answer 9

Because we discover money. And money kills our inner child.