A game of dice and gambling
I was on the phone with someone a few days ago, and as we discussed business, he told me about someone else (a younger person we know) who did something ridiculous without considering the security implications.
We were having trouble understanding why this person did what he did and how ridiculous it was, and we all laughed about it, but on second thought, so many people have done so many reasonable and unimaginable things when they were younger.
Youthfulness is accompanied by exuberances, and we would not realize how dangerous they were until we had passed that stage and began to imagine what would happen if the consequences of previous actions followed us.
There are so many young people who have tried so many crazy things in life, and it is because of their age, which is the age of exuberance. People tend to snap out of exuberances as they get older, which is due to their increased awareness of reality in their lives.
However, one thing we will never lose, regardless of age, is our ability to love.
A young teenager or young adult may express love in a ridiculous and stupid manner, whereas an adult may not express affection or love in this manner, but it is nearly identical; it is not logical, sensible, or calculative.
When I was younger, I remember people crying over love, having sleepless nights and heartbreak because someone they loved did not love them back, or because the person they loved could not be together due to life's complications. An adult or a teenager It is possible to feel this way, but it is usually reserved for teenagers or young adults because it is their first rodeo experience.
As an adult, I used to laugh at some of the ridiculous things that young people do for love. Perhaps it is because I am not a Philistine, or because that is no longer my priority, all because my life realities and priorities are different from others.
This is not to say that I have or have always had a stony heart; I grew up as a regular teenager with feelings for the opposite sex, and it is shameful to recall some of the things I did, but I believe it is far worse in this generation.
We now have 13 and 14-year-olds who are unable to eat because their hearts have been broken, and people who commit suicide because the love they feel is not reciprocated. It no longer feels like a harmless feeling; it is now judgmental, vindictive, and revengeful.
People no longer choose to walk away; instead, they choose to stay and endure the toxicity, pain, and harm.
Love is a beautiful thing when experienced properly, both on the surface and beneath.
It is also one of the most rare feelings. For me, sacrifice, empathy, and compassion represent the true depth and meaning of love, rather than the definitions we commonly see on the internet.
What we see on the internet is a commercialized version of lust. People simply express hormonal feelings as love, and because they lack depth and substance, they become vengeful and distasteful.
Mismatch and differences
Because the world is full of mismatches, only two or three percent of the people on the planet will feel the genuine thing and have it reciprocated to them. So many people believe they want to find love for the wrong reasons.
The world has 8 billion people, but many people end up alone, regretful, loveless, and in pain. Why? Because of the world's segregation and compartmentalization. The world is designed to limit rather than bring people together.
Race, gender, financial status, health status, and a variety of other factors all play a role in limiting opportunities. At the end of the day, many people will choose whatever option is available to them because they are becoming too old or lonely, and then hope they did not make the wrong decision.
This is the era in which we look at what we believe to be the right decisions, make them, and then hope we have not made a mistake. You may be lucky or unlucky, but for many, it is now a game of dice and gambling.
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Funny enough, I was having a discussion with a young doctor today, and he was telling me how he wants to live his life. I laughed and told him everything he's doing now surely has consequences, and he will regret them in the near future, but he replied that he won't regret anything.
Young people do crazy things most times.
Actions have consequences or comes with some goodwill, but there's no way we can live our lives without having to worry about consequences it's almost impossible. The doctor should know better lol.
The first love hurt the most cos we have never experience such a heartbreak before but the more the heart breaks, the more we get used to the pain and at a point, it hurt no more...
This is true, in my late 20s I realized that love or whatever hurt that came with it isn't as painful anymore, unlike when I was maybe 20 or 22. As we grow older lol, I guess we have even more important things to worry about lol.
As they often say, youth is wasted on the young... When we're young we don't really understand love and heartbreak, or how to handle the emotions. If I had the energy and exuberance of my younger years combined with the knowledge I have now, I could more readily appreciate what I have and take advantage to use it wisely.
Young minds often produce the biggest scientific breakthroughs, I think because our brains are more pliable and able to think outside the box when we're young.
As far as relationships go, they do shape you. Some people do end up alone, many by choice and others by health or finances. At the end of the day, life is a big roll of the dice. You never know what you'll get or how it will turn out...
Yeah, I miss being younger, it came with vibrance and strength. I'm know I'm not as old in my early 30s, but I've definitely seen and experienced thing that makes me older than I should.
You're right when you say that with age and experience we could have made the right decisions, but unfortunately no one is young, maybe in their teens or early age and have experience. I think it's the mistakes we make and the pain we go through that makes us experienced.
I did go through so many relationships issues, but the experience of some others are far worse. I think we all end up alone though, since we're going to be buried alone.
Better to be buried alone than in a mass grave the way I see it! If is funny how as you age you start to grip and accept your mortality. I just hope the end doesn't come too soon!
Having the energy of youth and experience of age all in one would be awesome. Of course relationship issues are ubiquitous, no one can avoid them completely. The experience of those early relationships and heartbreaks make us better at relationships, and in my case a little more paranoid about ever marrying again!
Yeah, I'm not sure you'll ever want to go down that marriage road anyway, it's what it is. I would have made a mistake as well, especially with the women I was hanging around with, it's such a relief to always know that my actions then didn't bring marital consequences. It would have been mental for me lol
Divorce sucks, especially here in California. Just to retain a good attorney for family court related issues is costs around $10K. And that's just to get started, it can end up costing $50K in lawyers fees and the person who earns more usually gets stuck with part of the bill for the one who earns less. California's legal system is a giant mess... I'm still very seriously considering selling the place to head to a more tax friendly state.
Age has a very high influence on youth, the adrenaline in them pushes them to act crazy sometimes without thinking about it's consequences because the believe that the energy they have can be used in compensation of whatever they destroy.
That's why they also have this spirit of entitlement when it comes to love, they want everyone they love to reciprocate back but unfortunately that's not how life works.
Yeah, I understand. It's true that almost everyone wants whatever they feel to be reciprocated to them. However, it's an unfair world we live in
Life so hard, I don't even have the energy to nurture relationships.. God help us.
Indeed
It’s so funny to see people and their weirdness when it comes to love and relationships. The feeling of entitlement is everywhere and common and because some people do not receive the same treatment they give, they feel sad and do crazy things just to make it work but at the end, what happens?
There are some young people out there who do not yet understand the concept of love and relationships, so, they do even the wrong things which later backfire on them later. Everything surely has consequences.
Young people nowadays are doing too much, but I don't blame them though, I also did to much when I was younger, it's just that it's so much different these days.
Back in the day, love wasn't how we looked at it. It's something else now lol; with everything we see on Facebook and the internet.
The world keeps changing, and weirder things will happen. It is well.
i remember in teenager times love was like a soap opera, there was everything litterally, people doing crazy things, fights, insults etc... it was really like american tv series.
now i dont know really how are teenagers, i know from news and such that now they are more careless of feelings, they just search easy sex, at like 13y already
I watch a lot of American high school love movies and it was chaotic lol. I wonder why it had to be like that.
For sure, more young people are now into love and sex, shows how the world is degenerating
So many people confuse real love with validation or control and it ends up hurting everyone involved. Life really does feel like a gamble sometimes.
Yeah; sometimes we gamble and it pays off, sometimes we gamble and it backfires lol, so we're either lucky or not.
😂😂😂😂 yes i hope to be lucky
In young age person do all ridiculous things … and in future we don’t have that spirit again 😅
Yeah, as you grow up you no longer feel too interested in those things
Hmm … that’s true
We all grow up, but I agree that the carefree life of someone who is really young is great. They can easily learn from the mistakes and still move on in life. I don't blame them because the education system isn't the greatest so they might not be as prepared for the job.
Yeah I know I did so many carefree things as a young person, and it has taught me a lot, but I think also that it's may more different nowadays
My brother you hit the points alot of things has changed nowadays, and things will keep changing because of the generation we're now.
Gones are the days whereby before you as a man can start having girlfriend, you have to reach 20years upward and you has a lady you have to reach 20years upward before you can start having boyfriend, but now things has changed. You will see a girl of 10 years talking about relationship, talking about sex and so on.
This is because of the century we're now. And there are some unreasonable things we do then when we were young, that we still remember now and sometimes we will be asking ourselves why we did and even be using ourselves laugh. We make ourselves laugh now because we've passed that level. Such is life.
Yeah, we all passed through that a lot. When I get was younger, I remember doing some crazy thing, but it wasn't as bad as the young people of nowadays are doing.
I agree that life is changing and probably that's one of the reasons, maybe it even gets worse as we go, but I missed how love used be like 15 to 20 years ago.
Yeah, you are right about saying that the bad things nowadays do now is far more than our own time....I also missed the love of age 15-20 years then.
I don't think that kind of love we had then still exist and even if it is still exist, it can never be like then