the older i get, the more i realize that i don't know half as much as i thought i should be knowing. i mean, when we were kids, you thought that you would have figured out the big answers by the time you were 18, and that our moms and pops knew all the answers - big or small!
but having become a parent myself, there are still large pockets of child-like thinking in my brain... so many areas i feel incompetent in.... so many things i don't know.
sounds pathetic, but i think i would still feel this way when i am 80!
anybody who has been there, done that, who can tell me whether this is a common disillusionment of adulthood? or i am one of those who just haven't acquired common wisdom that comes with age?
2007-06-22 03:22:24 · 16 answers · asked by jj 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
No you are not pathetic. You are wise, to know that wisdom does come with age. Their is an expression "Youth is wasted on the young". It is so true. When you are finally wise enough to know how to live, your to old to put it to good use.
When you are 80 you will be even wiser than you are today. Live and learn is another expression. Stop putting yourself down. Start believing in yourself. People learn by their mistakes.
2007-06-27 19:57:08 · answer #1 · answered by michelebaruch 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know that all people get wiser with age. I think it would be more accurate to say that people get more experienced with age. Experience can give one a lot of knowledge and wisdom. I believe there was someone who once said that wisdom is knowing that you don't have all the answers. So maybe you are wiser than you think.
And how boring would it be to have all of the answers? At times, it might be more reassuring to know everything, but knowing how to find the answers is just as important as knowing the answers. Learning new things can make life worth living. I hope that there are still things that I need and want to learn when I am 80.
2007-06-22 03:34:24 · answer #2 · answered by Barbara C 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mark twain said something like this "when I was 14 my father was an idiot but by the time I was 21 i was amazed at how intelligent he had become in just 7 years." Ithink I am wiser not just from experience but I can concentrate much longer and harder. I have a longer attention span and I don't get as bored. I would have been a genuis if I had this going on when I was in school but no they put ya in for puberty who can concentrate on calculus when you got puberty they should have put me to work then and left school for now. Figures the world is backwards. When I didn't want to go to school they forced me and now I want to go and they won't let me. I give up I am now pulling down my pants and masturbating for a better humanity
God bless you all.
2007-06-29 19:58:47 · answer #3 · answered by beth93 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just because you are an adult does not mean that you will have all the answers. I'm sure there were times in your life growing up where decisions were made by your parents that you wouldn't agree with. No one knows all the answers. The only way you get through the world is by trial and error. In a sense wisdom is knowing that life is very unpredictable and that there really is no being prepared. It is all about how you handle things as they are being thrown at you.
2007-06-29 11:47:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes, I think about how serious things were when I was 8 or 12 or, heaven help us, 17. Stressing over whether I was cool enough or if anyone noticed that my fly was down. Oh, it would have been the end of the world. I look back and laugh at how ridiculous the things I worried about were. But now, at 32, I stress about my marriage, paying the bills, our new house, the kids. I wonder, if at 50 or 60, I'll look back at my 30's and think how silly that I worried about those things.
2007-06-22 03:37:53 · answer #5 · answered by Wendy B 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think of maximum women folk end becoming around a while 14-sixteen. yet bear in techniques, all females are distinctive. additionally, i'm 14 and 5' 10", so which you're no longer on my own. :) additionally, the era factor isn't actual. i all started my era a pair of 12 months in the past, and that i've got grown probable approximately 2 inches when you consider that.
2016-10-18 08:50:45 · answer #6 · answered by lindenberg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No!
People get wiser with their experience. The more people have to go through and the more arduous the journey, the more people TEND to get out of life and with that comes wisdom.
There are some exceptions to the rule
2007-06-29 05:26:30 · answer #7 · answered by Nice&Neat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You sound just like you are getting wiser with age. All of us can learn more as long as we try to. Don't feel bad about it. It's a normal thing. Good luck
2007-06-22 03:31:04 · answer #8 · answered by puanani 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, a 15 year old can be more wise than an 80 year old man, and in alot of cases, usually is. It's all about experience and circumstance.
2007-06-28 05:40:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think older adults are wiser in things such as life lessons.
2007-06-29 04:15:06 · answer #10 · answered by juneBUG 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋