I’m not young enough to know everything.
-J.
M. Barrie
It always seems to have been easiest to think you know
everything when you are young. You get
an idea, you think about it a lot, then you come to the conclusion you know
everything there is to know about it. This keeps happening again and again. Soon, you will know it all.
The younger you are, the more likely it seems you have all
the answers-you know all about all the “latest things” after all. Maybe some start out humble, but find they
cannot stay that way. They feel compelled to drop the humble stuff
when they learn a few more things. Knowing more
things, they realize they know more than
almost everyone they know (especially if most of them happen to be older than
they are).
Is it just one’s youth that leads them to conclude things
won’t change, and this day’s success will continue indefinitely? I can''t answer that, I just don't know. I do know one thing for certain—my memory
isn’t what it used to be. So, if I ever
did know many things (never “most things” and certainly not “everything”), it’s
too late—I’ve forgotten most of it.
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