Is it that as we get older the things that affect us and our problems get larger? Or is it just that we can feel them more intensively?
I find this question bugging me a lot.
It seems that as we get older we get more depressed, meaning we can recall our childhood as a carefree happy time as opposed to now.
But...when I think about it, there's correlation with how happy you are and how much information you have.
As we get older we're told more and more truths. Truths that can often be painful, unfair, and hard. Much like life itself.
So I think it ends up getting back to the eternal question: is ignorance bliss?
Or...is it better to be a happier person without more knowledge, or a less happy person who is very learned.
Not to say that knowledge is intelligence, or the other way around. I know people in my school with much higher reading capacities, better grades, definitely much better SAT scores...but I think life experiences add to intelligence by making people intellectual about life. Is one or the other more important? I have no idea...
"Human behavior isn't discernible because it isn't fixed. Ten different people have ten different smiles."
The Caffeine Queen · Wed May 04, 2005 @ 06:48am · 1 Comments |