Different Perspective on Life over time

 

Funny how slowly over time, gradually as you get older, you start to perceive life differently, then you did when you were younger. How things that seemed to mean so much when you were in high school, later on when you get older, when you look back, they seem to not matter as much or at all. Or the reverse, the things that didn't matter so much when you were younger, seem to have a greater importance when you get older. 

Or the TV show's and movies you watched, how some character's you might have hated when you were younger, but years later, you might start to empathize with them, and understand there point of view better than you did when you were younger. And the character's you might have loved, and viewed as perfect, year's later, you might realize that they are just human, and are no better than you.

I guess over time, the things in life that are priorities to people naturally change over time, I never realized it for a long time, but slowly it's starting to make more sense. At least to me it does.

Even how you view friends you had, or have in life, might change over time, some people you might consider best friends, years later might feel more like acquaintances, and the people who feel like stranger's, years later you might consider your best friends. Or even how you view your parents might change over time too. How you view yourself might change over time as well. Maybe over time, you slowly might start to understand yourself more and more as a person, a lot better than you did in high school or college for that matter. I can say, that at 30, I know myself a lot better than I did in high school. 

That's why, even now, I honestly think that it's nuts to expect people in high school to know exactly what they want to do with their life, or who they want to be with for the rest of their life. I can honestly say that at 17 years old, I had no clue of what I wanted to do with my life, let alone of what type of person I wanted to spend my life with. 

I didn't know until recently, that the human brain doesn't stop maturing, developing, it keeps learning and developing throughout your whole life. So to expect people at 16-20 year's old to have their whole lives in order when there brains are still developing realistically doesn't make any sense. Or even hiring someone at a new job, expecting them to get everything right away. When in fact, it takes most people around 6 months to get fully accustomed to the job, and a whole year to fully know and understand of how everything within the job works.

It goes for everything in life, how you perceive things constantly changes over time, you just don't realize it until you start looking back on your life once and a while.