change

I recently received an interesting quote by email,

"The younger we are, the more we want to change the world.
The older we are, the more we want to change the young."

which made me introspect for a while. After all, I am no exception.

What happens during the journey from Young to Old ?

When we are young, the mind is very much open and not yet conditioned by all the experiences of the old. Hence while young, you tend to continuously stretch the set boundaries. This either individually or collectively, creates small incremental change over the way the world was before.

But as we grow old, we keep listening to the experiences of the old (over and over) and unconsciously start accepting them. We also get preoccupied with all the committments that we have in this society. This eventually saturates our thoughts.

So when the new generation starts to talk about change, we have gone far away from changing the world and think that the present day youth needs to be changed.