Age and Experience - I

My brother and sister were home yesterday. They brought their kids and the number is substantial, seven to be exact. The kids were playing and making a lot of noise. They are young, none of them above 10 years old. Observing them suddenly made me realize one thing. As we grow older, we imagine ourselves growing up, understanding life better, becoming more "experienced" and behaving differently from what we may have been like at that age. I realized that it's not true, we just pretend that it is. The only thing that increases with age is information and the ability to absorb and handle that information. We don't and I say again, we don't behave differently, only there is just more information. A person who is studying in college considers his study more difficult than someone who is in school. The person who is on the job considers his life more difficult than someone who is just studying. A person of forty considers that he understands life more than a teenager. They are all cheating themselves, only telling themselves this lie because it makes them happy and makes the time spent look useful. They are essentially the same people, doing essentially the same things. Like a kid they only have surrounded themselves with more toys, to make themselves more busy and imagine living a more profound life. What does it mean that one has become more experienced? If someone tries three things and comes to know which of those is good, they call it experience. That's all what experience is, more information. It does not matter if the glass contains water or wine. Neither makes the glass more important, people drink whats inside and leave the glass. Something "experienced" people terribly fear, and they should.