Experience makes you wiser, says a proverb. That is why a birthday is celebrated. Another year older and wiser, congratulations my dear! Worried? Oh well, you know how they say "age is just a number".

One experience is not the same as the other and that also applies to the average person. A hundred people can experience the same thing, but if this is experienced differently and nothing is done with these experiences, then experiences do not make a person any wiser.

I could be referring to my childhood/or my life in general. Have the experiences made me wiser, have I learned something from them? Do I interact with other people, am I more social, more handy, more creative or not? How a person approaches life has most to do with character. The inquisitive person always learns something, the intelligent person has an answer to every question, no, even to every thought.

There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers and lazy parents and teachers.

When a child has a question, it deserves an answer. The answer I got was not 'You will understand that when you are older' but 'I will tell you that later'. Later never came and to this day my many questions have never been answered.

Both my grandmothers' birthdays were one day apart. Their characters were relatively the same, although one had turned into an embittered woman who sat knitting in her villa and the other, who had survived the concentration camp with the most terrible pains and illnesses, a fighter who tried to make something of her life (she was high educated, a working wife and mother and spoke several languages).

One said: When you get older you learn not to wear your heart on your sleeve (don't say everything you feel/think) while the other didn't mince words and said exactly what it was.

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Becoming wiser as we get older is not necessarily a fact. As people get older, they no longer accept things that young people get excited about. Perhaps they lack the physical energy to stand on the barricades and make themselves heard, or they think: I have fought enough for freedom and contributed to building the country.
Nowadays respect for the elderly is hard to find, so young people will certainly not see the elderly as a source of wisdom.

Today I don't think young people can teach me anything. The paths that many take are not my thing. The idleness, disinterest, eternal boredom, shouting for rights and not achieving anything at the same time is not something I like to learn. I have taught myself what I can do. I could cook and bake when I was 8, I can sew, knit and crochet. I don't listen to my children's music, they listen to mine. I have learned to carry out repairs on my home, car and bicycle, I know how to play games, and how a TV, radio, cassette recorder, tape recorder, video player, DVD player, computer and telephone work. What I can't figure out myself, I look up or ask others. I don't worry if someone thinks my question is strange. I do notice that it is often the elderly who answer and are helpful. I would also ask an older person for help more often than a young person. Older people are more helpful and social where I live.

I also like to listen to what older people have to say. Many of them can be narrative and they have a richer vocabulary. Their language is also more aggressive due to the many proverbs and sayings. I also love history, so that will also play a role.

I haven't yet reached the point where I'm seen as a boring old woman. Everyone blurts out all kinds of things to me, regardless of their age. Maybe my age is at a standstill? As a child I already felt old and my friends were about 30 years older. Nowadays it changed and, except for one, they are all younger.

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Regardless of age, I believe that experiences only come from what you experience. Experiences are not gained by choosing or staying in bed. That is also why I think wisdom has nothing to do with education. Although you cannot compare a child with a lot of life experience with peers, he remains a child emotionally meaning varying the responsibilities at a young age does not make a child mature. Emotional growth, just like puberty and a stabilization of hormones is needed as well.

Not being mature is also clearly noticeable in children who have experienced a lot in their youth or intelligent children. It is often forgotten that they are lagging emotionally and socially. Children need to gain experiences, learn and set boundaries through interaction with children.

Anyone who takes on the role of an adult at a young age has much more experience (skills) in many tasks but has never experienced what it is like to be a carefree child.

One of my grandmothers said: Your childhood is the best time of your life. I did not share that opinion then or today and, to be honest, I don't believe she believed it either.


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