Design of Human Life

When we are born we are zero on experience and very rich on energy. As a small child we do lots the running around, playing, trying different things, which slowly enhances our learning about the world around us. At the same time when we are experimenting with different things, our elders keep telling us what to do and what not to do… which is generally based on their experiences, their learning’s. Being a kid how many times to we give heed to their advice? Probably zilch…we are full of energies and we have firm belief that we are different and we are gonna change the world…so to say.

As we start growing up, time teaches us lots of things and we start to gain experience. But there are lots of things we still have not experienced. Actually, every stage of life comes with new kinds of experiences; hence someone who has inhabited this planet longer is likely to have more experience. But the design of human brain is such that it generally tries to assume that mine is gonna be a different case! I am probably better equipped, am smarter and whatever happened to others will not happen to me coz ultimately I am different! Hence, we keep fighting our battles in our very own different (yet similar) ways. And, based on my experience, more often than not we end up realizing that what others said was probably true…But by the time we realize that others were right, we are more often than not, in the same place where our elders were. And one interesting fact is when we start to mature we have tons of experience but we are low on energy. This state is complete opposite of the state when we started our journey of life.
Having seen the world for long time, we probably know what it takes to tackle life better. But does any one gain from this knowledge? We ourselves cannot coz we gained this knowledge after spending precious time and we cannot go back in time and apply what we learned. Youngsters who are in that stage of life want to do things their way so they don’t care. If this is the design of human life why is it like this?