Text: Flipping through the books in his spare time
In fact, the elderly may not be able to be the mentors of young people, because the elderly do not necessarily benefit more than they lose in their lifetime.
- Thoreau, Walden
The experience of the elderly is a summary of a lifetime of experience, and it must be meaningful.
However, whether this meaning is universal is debatable. In the modern society where information is changing with each passing day and new things are emerging in an endless stream, whether a person's accumulated life experience is suitable for the current environment is a question mark.
Any strategy is environmentally relevant, and if new problems are not solved, the experience can only be a kind of memory.
This is the case when we talk about life experience from a utilitarian point of view. The elderly struggle with whether they are competent mentors for young people depends on whether this teaching is on a specific level or on a human level.
Concrete methods seem practical and are most easily replaced by the development of society; the understanding of man has not changed for thousands of years.
Why has the truth, goodness, beauty, and false evil and ugliness in human nature changed because of what?
Therefore, when a person accumulates observations of people throughout his life, such experiences will not become obsolete and are a valuable wealth in life.
In contrast, if one is always accumulating views of things, then these experiences are likely to apply only to the individual, only to the time in which it was born.
In general, everyone brews their own honey in their own lives, and the guidance of others may point to some kind of shortcut, but I think that there are some hardships in life, and only after they have tasted it can they truly realize the truth.
There are some detours that you have to go to yourself.
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Read one or two, feel three or four, there is warmth in the text. I am a casual book turner who writes feelings, read lightly every day, welcome to click to follow, meet.