Of Youth and Age Week:2

People who are elder in age are much more experienced, as they have made much further than people who are young.

            There are many mistakes that everyone makes throughout his/her life and that is something that no one can deny it. Although, there are good aspects from those mistakes and that is that one can learn through their mistakes that one makes. Through the trials and errors that one makes, they learn to become more mature and wiser with the choices. In the essay Of youth and Age by Francis Beacon, it says that “because authority followeth old men” and that is saying about how old people are much more experienced with life.

            Everyone has to make choices and decision but at times, those are something that ruins everything. “The errors of young men are the ruin of business” is something that Francis beacon himself writes in his essay about how at times decisions that are made by young men are destructive. And after that she states that “but the errors of aged men, amount but to this, that more might have been done, or soon.” Beacon also wants to convey the reader that young men tend to be little stupid compared to older people “Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.” And Beacon here means that young men are more adventurous and they try to go further than their limit to experiment with their lives.

            Beacon in his essay has made elder people far more smart and brilliant than younger men because “Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success” and that does seem true with the real world. I am a teenager and my parents are much elder compared to me. At times I do try and experiment with my life and make my own decisions that aren’t approved by my parents. I think that I am achieving success by doing so, but the truth is that what my parents tell me turns out to be the best decision for me.

            In the end, people that are older in age are much more brilliant because even, they have been through their youth when, they did make mistakes that eventually helps each one of them to learn and not repeat that mistake again. Although, they may not be the men who are able to learn new things, they do have the idea about what is right and wrong, and the choices that they make are much more sensible.