AGE DEEPENS EXPERIENCE

I often wish, and have for the last 20 years from the time I was in my mid-50s, that “I had the experience of today in my youth of yesteryear.”

Without a doubt, the lessons one learns become deeper and hopefully more enriched as well and gets older.

As a young man, I was far more reckless and less thinking about my actions than later in life when I paused to reflect before acting. Giving deeper consideration to matters and being less hasty in action outcomes comes with reflection on past experiences.

In my years of dotage I often reflect upon the fact that had I, when younger, taken advice on some matters that were offered to me by older people with greater experience, that I might well have made wiser decisions that was the case. But I was reluctant to listen to some of those who had considerably more years of experience and awareness of situations then did I.

As one of the senior people in this world, I look and see decisions being made with the same lack of thought that burdened me in younger years. I could have made decisions that were better, had I listened to advice. As a senior person, I appreciate the frustration that people who offered support felt – particularly as they knew what the outcomes of my non listening and non-advice taking would be.

So now the whole thing turns through 180 degrees. It’s a case of the situation being one that goes round and round, round and round. The young become old and the young in their place don’t listen to the olds any more than happened when I was young.

It’s true to say that age deepens experience, but whether that experience is going to have any transition into changing things for those coming through is very questionable indeed. It comes back to the point of “I wish I had the experience of today in my youth of yesteryear“.