Age vs Experience

Which is more important: age or experience? Is it a number or resume? Is it mind or matter?

At my young age of 20 (almost 21) I have a developing knowledge of the effects that your age has on the way people react to you. Based on what we can and cannot do, we are automatically put into a category based on our age. It happens to everyone and everyone does it, whether they think they do or not. Its a human characteristic that we cannot avoid... or is it? Can we accept everyone equally and remove age from the picture? No. It cannot be done. There might be circumstances that allow for age not to matter but in order to grow as a human, age must be taken into play, just like any other animal, because that is what we are. Age is a number of cycles each of us have achieved. We go day by day growing just a little more. We might not see it or feel it but we are. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said "The years teach much which the days never knew." I have often heard people say, "those were the days" and they were, the days were great but they weren't much until you stop and realize how powerful one more day in a life time is. I am close 21 years of age and it scares me to think that I have lived for almost 7,665 days and still have no idea who I really am.

Time is not just about the hours in a day or the weeks in a month. It is about how you spend that time. Time not used is time well wasted. Go out and make something of your life. Be young and free. You only age as fast as you let yourself. There is a whole world to see. so see it.