What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young……Paradox


Consider this a writing to my older self, I hope she gets to read this. Why? Wait around, and you will find out.

When I was a child, I love reading a lot of books, so that meant, I knew a lot of things too big for my age. And there was this older fellow who kept saying he wished he knew, what he did at that age, at a young age.

I did not completely understand what he meant until now. Looking back, I have come to understand that life had given him lots of experiences, and he wished he was still very young to implement them.

But the reality is that he has gotten too old to establish most of those things, and he may literally die of regrets.

It is therefore paradoxically to say that “it is a pity that youth must be wasted on the young”

That because as young people, we tend to think we have so much time on our hands, so we are found wasting it. No matter how many times, the older generation tries to tell us, otherwise, we throw off their advice down the drain.

If the older folks could trade their age with ours, I am 100% sure, they will use all of their experiences to make marks in history.

I guess, maybe this is why, today, if you are reading the book “the greatest salesman”; you will find in the pages of that book, that you should not wait around for experiences, instead you should learn from masters that have come before you.

In this way, your labor will be cut short, and you will be furthering your goals on the hard work of your predecessors.

However, if you are looking for something to counter the mentioned book above, go for the book titled “Mastery” by Robert Greene, and you will surely find out that shortcuts never lead to mastery.

You need to undergo the vigorous pieces of training of life, and find your voice, as well your inclination, then soar with it.

You see life is a two-faced coin, you will always have the head and the tail, and you cannot have both at the same time. So if one is looking for short cut his best option is learning from previous experiences.

And if they are looking for mastery, competence, and efficiency, they should look for option B.

At some point, when I think about this, I wonder if what I need to do is to teach my children from a tender age how to be experienced. Then, I will hold myself back because I would not want to seem like a parent who is deciding the path of destiny for her children.

Even at that, I still feel, it gets better with each generation, if I found out early on, why youth is such an important phase of life, then the next generation from my lineage will naturally tap into it, this time even earlier than I did.

This way, the process continues to more generations ahead of me. Each generation will come with an advanced understanding of how valuable time is.

No one ever believes we need the prime of our lives to be who we want to be. We usually thought it was the period with no real obligations, and so we have to swing it the way we like.

The people who don’t get this luxury are those who had to face various disasters such as losing a parent, or both parents, having to take care of themselves, and properly their siblings.

The ugly truth here is that they take life at face value with no time for fun, or distractions, jokingly, they are the ones who never have regrets at the end of their lives.

And that is because by then, they must have fulfilled all righteousness, by taking responsibility for every damn action, and working to correct any that turned out to be a mistake.

The next people who seem to be in this category are those whose parents already had an empire built for them to run. At a tender age, they realize they have to live up to the expectation of their parents; or suffer in their eyes.

Even though they may think they have been cheated out of their youths, and childhood; by the time they are able to break away from the sting of their parents, they will realize that the pieces of training they received were necessary for the road ahead.

And they remain grateful

And finally, those who had both parents alive and did not have to live up to any expectation get to have the most regrets if no one shows them how important youth is.

For anyone out there who is still in the prime of age, I will say you should not waste yours; for the scripture has stated clearly of a time when you will be burned down with troubles, your body will grow feeble, your teeth decay, and your eyesight falls.

Then you will not be able to do any changes to your life.

In as much as there are some who have gotten old, and regretted some part of their youths, there are those who think they have not had enough time to do all they wanted to do, so I would say they are the ones whom the paradox (What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young) suits.

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Wow, really thoughtful. I'm happy I came across this, I'm just 23 years old and I already do a lot of retrospection, philosophizing and book reading. I try to maximize my potential and learn certain skill sets but I don't think I've really been approaching my life with the view that my time is running out and I need to maximize time too. I only view it like this when I'm thinking of getting as much fun/pleasure as I can now. But that's in line too, if you ask me.

This is still quite a wake up call for me, so thanks for sending out this insight. How old are you by the way?

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Smiles.......I will be 23 too by May 31st this year, darling

And I am so pleased to know that at this same age someone is a reader like me, I mean readers are leaders, isn't it? ....lol

Please, stop thinking you have time, soon, you will be shocked to read this comment again in the next few years, and wonder how time flies

Now, that doesn't mean you should not have a little bit of fun, no, after all, "all work and no play @nevies a dull fellow"......hahahhaa

It is a pleasure to meet you, and I hope to see at the top, in the coming years...good luck sweetie


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Cool! Nice to meet you too.

I thought you were older with the way I thought you were sounding on the post.
Thanks, I'd really put it in mind that time is flying by and make the most of it 👍

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hahhahhahhahaa

Did you not notice the first line?? I specifically said, I was writing this for my older self...lol
I will make the most out of it too darling. Thank you for coming around


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So true about time going by so fast. 50 year olds today were 29/30 year olds back in 2000. And 2000 doesn't seem that long ago.

I don't know if it's possible to have no regrets in life. Who knows what life after death holds. There was an interesting movie I watched recently where 'life after death' was a series of never-ending loops trying to correct our regrets.


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I don't know if it's possible to have no regrets in life.

Lol
I know it is true that at some point we will always have regrets with life, but maybe not In all areas for we cannot be perfect at everything

there will always be an angle of life that we suck at, and our regrets may steam from any of those

The movie?? Wow, I hope it is pure fiction, and not reality..lol, but I would love to see, and maybe learn one or two things in there....what is the name?

Thank you for stopping by dear

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It's a blessing to discover the truth of a paradox at a young age @edystringz. That would make all of your actions even more deliberate and the moments of your life all the more precious.

I'm not sure wisdom can be taught to the next generation, but our experiences can be properly documented for the next generation to be seen clearly so they will not follow those same mistakes.

Also I'm not quite sure what "the prime of age" is anymore. I cannot bounce off of mountains like I did twenty or thirty years ago, but that doesn't make me old. Perhaps living in regret would make me old. Today my knees do cry out in regret for jumping down ravines and rocks bigger than me, but I do not regret any of the paths I have trodden. The day I regret my youthful disasters is the day I deny the grace I received.


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It's a blessing to discover the truth of a paradox at a young age @edystringz. That would make all of your actions even more deliberate and the moments of your life all the more precious.

I am grateful to the almighty for his grace. I do not deserve this but He lets have it all the same.

I'm not sure wisdom can be taught to the next generation, but our experiences can be properly documented for the next generation to be seen clearly so they will not follow those same mistakes.

Yes i agree but documentation will have one basic flaw........a lot of people in the new generatio may not be in the category that loves reading or finding wisdom in the pages of books

The day I regret my youthful disasters is the day I deny the grace I received.

I just felt guilty over what i said after reading this because you are right

Thank you so much for coming around


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You see life is a two-faced coin, you will always have the head and the tail, and you cannot have both at the same time. So if one is looking for short cut his best option is learning from previous experiences.

I love this meaningful words, sometimes our life in skies and sometimes go down to earth thats how life works


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Smiles.. ....

I love the meaning so much that once disasters struck, i console myself with that fact

Thank you


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I do not consider myself old but not young I think I am at that age where you just stop climbing in terms of force vitality experience, and you levitate for a while and then the years remind you how heavy the body can be. I love to wake up every day and be able to try to do something better than yesterday, and you are very right that sometimes it would be great to go back to do some things better, that part would have been great if it existed!


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yes, the part where we could go back in time and fix our past will have been a great one, but we are sorry for ourselves for it doesn't exist

perhaps, that is why we try to look at the younger folks, and try to tell them what to do so they don't end up making the same mistakes

The truth be told, the young are not always ready to hear, they feel, the older folks are just trying to deprive them of their youths.

Thank you @clicmaster for stopping by


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This is an endless cycle

We live in loop

I myself wanted to have what I know today about investments when I was 18 years old.
But everything I went through today was necessary for me to understand, because there would be no way for me to know before. And so life goes.

In a few years, I will continue to have the same idea of ​​wanting to know today what I will discover tomorrow ...

The important thing in the end is not to stop doing what you have learned, as it is never too late for anything. We just have to start and never stop.

Great text of yours!

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that is true of course

Life is an endless loop, and we will continue to have an idea of the future today, even though we will be walking into it in a few years

And as you said, we just need to start and never stop

Thank you so much for stopping by

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indeed, life is like a two-faced coin. It sucks you can't both. Enjoy now, suffer later. Suffer now, enjoy later.

For me I'm kind of the enjoy now. Kind of regret it but I'm still on prime age and I'm now trying to make better choices my future self would thank me someday.

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LOl

It sucks you can't both.

Sincerely, it does.

Kind of regret it but I'm still on prime age and I'm now trying to make better choices my future self would thank me someday.

I am glad that you have decided to make better choices for your future self

Best of luck sweetie

Thank you for coming around.


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Oh boy. Nowadays it's really easy to see how much you improved as a person, by checking your social media. Everything I did longer than a year ago is cringeworthy! Painfully so! Gladly I deleted it all, but I still think back to the stupid shit I posted back then, thinking I was a genius.

In the end it's a good sign. We learn and we grow.


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hhahahahaha

That is so true

Years ago, we might have thought we were geniuses by the way we do stuff on social media

But if we look back at it now, we would cringe....hhahhahaha

But there will always be those stunt we pulled then, that we will still marvel at now

Which will make us ask questions like "Did I really do ?"


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