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IronBear -> RE: young into the lifstyle (7/31/2005 7:30:51 AM)
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I tend to believe is that youth is where you are usually resilient enough to make a heap of mistakes and hopefully learn from them and grow from the experience. It’s the time where most are learning to stand on their own two feet and make a start on things which will remain with them through the years. I remember telling my mother when she was about to was her hands of me because I chose a Military carreer instead if University, that if she loved me she'd allow me to make my own decisions and my own mistakes. If she refused to do that, she would be wanting me to be a clone which was not love at all... After a few tears both my parents agreed with this. (Well thats the shortened story, the rest is family business)
The middle years is where you should have gained sufficient experience and knowledge to establish yourself and with (hopefully) self knowledge know what you want and perhaps even got for it.
The Elder years are for reflection on life generally and on self and to mentor those who you can.
I wonder how many of the Vets out there can remember going to combat as youngsters and coming out “older” and wiser with a much more mature outlook on life and things generally. I can say from my own experience, in Vietnam I did one hell of a lot of growing up and maturing. Heh, I even found out that I was not bullet proof. I learned that darkness was my friend and that pain was there to remind me I was alive…..
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