Growing.

@Lore2009 (7378)
United States
October 18, 2011 7:37pm CST
The other day I got to talk to someone who was about 10 years old than I am. My friends are about my age so I don't really get exposed out of my age range... but after talking to the person who was 10 years older.. they seemed more wiser and grounded. So do people really change with age? Or was this person just originally a wise and grounded person? I hope I take what I learn as I age and keep growing into something wise. So, if I came across some of the people who were rude in our youth years, do you think they've matured and changed? Or do people rarely change?
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@inertia4 (27961)
• United States
21 Oct 11
Most people become wiser as they age, you know with age comes wisdom. But there are this that have that ability even when they are young. That is a rarity. The longer you're around the more you see and the more you live. You do become wiser as to how life really is. But it's up to you to make it be a good life for yourself.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
20 Oct 11
I can only speak about myself. I hope that I am constantly learning and because of that changing. If I get to a place in life when I cannot do this, I would just as soon die. I think sometimes people find a way to live that makes them comfortable and they do stay there, to change is just to much risk. But not me I am a risk taker and that is my joy in life, if I am comfortable I start to feel stalled in life.
@picjim (3002)
• India
19 Oct 11
Some youngsters are more intelligent,hence more stable and grounded.But the vast majority of us have become more stable after experiencing life and its hard knocks.Experience teaches us to be more sober and mature.It is not as if most of us were mature from the beginning but life's varied experiences teach us to react in a more mature manner.
• United States
19 Oct 11
As we age, we learn better so we do better. The people we were 30 or 40 years ago may not be the same people today. I don't believe EVERYONE gets wiser as they age. Some can do some pretty stupid things, but I think most people do get more grounded as they age because they have more life experience.
@vikku2001 (258)
• India
19 Oct 11
Hello Lore Its just the age factor.After passing 10 years more than you he has more experience in his life.May be he is also an wise person but it is fact that a person learns very much from his life along his whole life.I am sure you will also be a wise person after 10 years.You just think that if a 10 year younger boy come to meet you then would he think in the same way about you or not.Its just that you are younger than him.So it is always said that before doing any important work,take some elders advice that must be helpful.
@airkulet (2700)
• Philippines
19 Oct 11
Well I say that sometimes experience is our knowledge. You will get better as you grow older, just as you know what's good and bad and you're way to go. If you happen to dealt with the youth set a good example for them and scold those who goes in the wrong way.
@ElicBxn (63252)
• United States
19 Oct 11
Ya know, people do mature... While I don't "think" I'm that different than when I was younger, I have to say that I'm pretty sure I am. In fact, the one thing that makes me a LOT different than many of my classmates from high school is that they got married and had kids. I did not.
@greenline (14838)
• Canada
19 Oct 11
As we get older, passing along the life-path, we gain more experience with different things in life. We do gain maturity and wisdom. Depending on the activities one gets engaged in, the types of knowledge and experience will of course differ.
@celticeagle (160064)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Oct 11
People really do change with time and experiences. When we are young we are easily swayed and innocent. After some experience we learn from we act differently in such situations. We learn from our environment and histories. People rarely change in some ways and very definitely in others.
@momof3kids (1894)
• Singapore
19 Oct 11
To me its simple. All I have to do is to set my mind to whatever I want. You are right about people who are older get wiser. Then again I have seen some people in Mylot whose old age makes them no wiser. So my conclusion is if you want something just set your mind to do it, to be selfless, to be caring, to be unprejudiced. Best thing to remember we have two ears so that means it is better to listen more than to talk (because of one mouth). When you listen, the information goes through your head and makes you think. Sometimes when you talk, you cannot think. Sometimes people refuse to listen so they stop to learn. Most prejudiced people are like that and they become unbearable. The worse thing they sometimes lead a herd of sheep. I hope you take what you learn as you age and keep growing into something wise also and I hope I am that already. I think you are already becoming wise.
• United States
19 Oct 11
Yes it really depends on the individual as some do get more mature and wiser. However, I have known some older then me that OMG could use some growing up to do. Some people are naturally immature and I guess it takes a hard life to cause them to grow up. Usually people do mature and or change but again there are some that seem that although they are older still need some maturing. Some simply refuse to act their age.
• China
19 Oct 11
people could change with years went by. when we were just a child, we are not mature and had little knowledge of everything,so we seemed silly sometimes while when we grew up, things had become clear to us and of course we would turn to wiser than before. If someone was rude in a young age,and some years later, you are bound to find out that he or she has changed greatly and to be someone differently. maybe he or she has changed on his or her appearance;or maybe changed inherently or changed in mind. It is difficult to judge. whether changed or not on something depends on thinking of each other,on feeling of each other.