Too many people dont realise this but when 80 percent of your interactions is with people older than you - both age and academically - there are some major consequences. Firstly, you start picking up on their thought processes. So because you think like somebody not-your-age, you react like somebody not-your-age. This often leads to the inferiority/superiority complex. Say, for example, you have a classmate who likes to listen to music or text in classtime. Her POV - why so serious? Ill collect the notes later. Your POV, on the other hand, is you have to do well in studies. This does not obviously mean you love to study. The reason, in this scenario, may be that you see your older-other friends who are struggling in university or people who talks about how they realise that our parents work really hard to provide us with education and we owe this to them and to your ownselves etc, and you start thinking like them, which makes you serious about studies. So when you look at that classmate, you think of her as immature, cause compared to you, she obviously is. And when your older friends look at you, you are immature, cause you are obviously younger and less experienced than them. You know what happens then? You just dont fit in with any of them. Like they say, friends with everyone, *friends* with noone. I should know, thats pretty much the story of my life. But my point is, age matters, yes, very much. But the company you keep is a bigger part of you, because thats what shaped your conscience, helped you turn into *you* in the first place. A twenty year old married man is definitely wiser than a 25 year old unmarried man (normally). There is this thing called genetic and environmental interaction. And too many people fail to take the latter into consideration.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 10:10:52 +0000