why young people have more energy and more passion?

Answer 1

Still full of life and just starting it maybe.

Answer 2

Essentially, they have a higher metabolic rate, they characteristically carry less weight. However, the generalization of that statement is inaccurate, a person my age (52) can have a lot of energy and passion. ( I certainly do) Simply staying physically and mentally active. The rubbish that as you age you become less active is an out and out lie. Staying young and having more energy is staying active both physically and mentally, so for those couch potatoes turn off the T.V, and lift weights, run and work on logic puzzles or any mentally strenuous pastime.

Answer 3

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but , they have more energy because they have better functioning endocrine systems than the rest of us.

They have more passion because like it was for us, the first time is always the "most" dramatic, our first love, our first time in bed, our first kiss, our first job, whatever. After you realize the ins and outs of jobs, dating, marriage, buying a car it becomes normal.

I'm sure 5-6 year olds get excited about being able to tie their shoes, but at 35 or 45 you understand that it is a seriously over-rated experience.

Answer 4

Because they have their whole life ahead of them and loads of oportunities avaliable - life is like one big adventure. Older people have been knocked back more, and often end up stuck doing things they dont want to. Young people have just started out and are optimistic, older people are instead more disillusioned with the world.

Answer 5

It makes sense to me. When you are younger you need to experience a wide variety of situations. When you are older you need to focus on the ones that are pertinent . The passions are more "of the mind" than of the heart's desire as you age and become more reflective.

Answer 6

"Old" people have the passion, believe me, they just don't have the energy for much beyond talk and smiles; holding hands by a lake, walking, doing tai chi together... weird stuff like that.

Answer 7

Most haven't had as much pain in life. They don't realize things are harder to get than they think.

Answer 8

Because being young means you're just starting, so you're not tired yet.

Answer 9

Maybe its physical, and parents had more energy even than their children as children. This view seems regrettable though, because a family would likely die out after several generations.

A more agreeable view is that children have a larger concept of life's potential, and derive energy in thrilling in what they can do, what options they have, or a sense of being carefree about whether life matters or not.

Another view is that sex and related activities can be draining except towards more strictly adult things like work. Maybe many adults have relationships with bad chemistry, or Americans in general have made bad nutrition choices. Maybe good foods are just mostly unavailable, or for no good reason no one is interested in a better diet.

This may not be a philosphical answer, but I took a nutrition class in which the professor claimed that soft drinks drain energy, especially if consumed daily.

I don't hold it self evident that young people intrinsically have more energy. While it may partly be a matter of faith or belief in grand visions of human possibility, on the other hand some people become demoralized especially in the teens, about what is possible or permitted.

There are probably some individuals who wind up with the right combination of fortuitous events or input from considerate parents, or are simply set up for an energized life, and manage to live it, at least up to a point. In my view its a matter of the flaws of experience, not just in nutrition, motivation, or having a dynamic role, but the interactions with other people, the awareness of limitations or the presence of a sense of loss or inability to meet one's vision of potential, whereby to be driven is potentially to be blind.

There is a vast difference between those with a life that works for their own whim (not me), and those who need to make exceptional choices just to HAVE ENERGY.

One could say that some of this depends on some kind of prefigured morality, or its fate, or children are motivated to be adults and not children (a little dark), yet what it comes down to is that many adults are missing out on the things that give them energy, things that children may have possessed because of the comforts of an over-arching family.

Young adults who still live with a family may not be as drained financially, but may feel almost neutered emotionally out of failure to fulfill the adult image.

Living a life, there are many opportunities, and many opportunities to fail. Even those who win may feel drained for having struggled. Those that have energy in adulthood are those who have secured several things 1. An active life (in spite of the commuter reality, mass entertainment, or unemployment) 2. A reason for contentment (requiring sense of self, sense of value, and sense of self-value) 3. Means for security (at least, money) 4. Social relavence (a role to play in society, in spite of growing populations and the common disconnectedness)...

Some of these things are more likely to come by fate than by personal dint. Many of the good things in my life depend on factors over which I had little control, other than trying to maintain my sense of a status quo. Sometimes its useless to struggle, but also useless to give up. If you value your own security, you can work to promote your own values, find a sense of directedness that makes you feel valued, have a job in which money reinforces security, and then work on the issue of social relavence.

I'm sure this is basically the message my parents have been trying to give me for a long time. Sometimes there's no easy path and that can be draining, but of course the right path is not a path in which one is drained without making headway towards one's own accomplishments. Ideally, one would not be drained at all.

In my case greater energy felt dangerous. The energy I did have when I didn't know what to do with myself wasn't useful except in generating strange dreams and writing scary poetry. The question becomes, what brings a person to the point where he or she can set down some goals, and approach them reasonably, as the best of opportunities? Sometimes useful energy does not manifest itself as energy. Maybe children are energized because they don't know what to do with it.

Answer 10

That is a fallacy.
What about youngsters that can not articulate, express or channel the creativity?