Youth is wasted on the young.

A lot of things are on my mind today. Isn't a lot of things on people minds anyway? If you think about how much information our brain processes everyday, feelings, colours, temperature, objects, pain, love, weather, etc. We process so much everyday that things are ALWAYS on our mind. It just so happens that the things on mind I have chosen to think about -Insert debate about determinism and free will here-

"Youth is wasted on the young" - As much as I agree with this statement there is many things wrong with it.

First of all isn't being young all about being careless and not knowing anything? And youth is the period where we can recover the best from our mistakes. Every mistakes makes us that little bit wiser... while we get that little bit older. If we were wise and young then no-on would dare try anything new and everyone would know what they want to do and so no one would do anything new or even have the feeling we experience today. So the power of youth would be wasted on the old. Which brings me on to my next point...

Secondly, if you believe philosophical saying such as "Youth is wasted on the young" then it would be hypercritical of you not to bring into account other saying such as "Your as young as you feel" or "Old age is 15 years older than I am". When exactly does youth finish? Because if your comparing age to the world then 60 years isn't even a breath. In social context you are labelled as old, but in reality you are not.

Lastly, if you do choose to look at youth in a social context way and think it's any time before ages 30 (just a guess, i've made it clear this is not how i choose to look at things!) Then youth isn't wasted on the young. It's wasted on exams, pressures of growing up, trying to build a career and family, a judging society and on stress.   Not only do exams take the youth out of the young, it also stops the idea of what school should be. School should be about the love of learning about life and not learning how to pass your next exam. I understand that you have to know where people are and it's important to know what standard you are at with education. But isn't there a better way to do it?

I don't know. I'll let you make up your own decision about it all. Just make sure that whatever you decide that you always smile... because at the end of the day isn't us being happy the only thing that matters?

This post is dedicated to anyone doing any sort of examinations in the next couple of weeks
-  Goodluck :)