Age and Maturity

It’s very common for older people to exert their authority over younger folk just because of the age factor. We’re older than you; we’ve experienced a lot more and hence know a lot more than you do. Hence, you have to listen to us.

But then you begin to wonder. Why is that not true? Ideally, that should be the case. Older people should be wiser and more mature than the young. But’s that’s not always the case. There are young people who are wise beyond time.

How did things get so mixed up you ask?

Well, if you take the scientific theory of the Big Bang, everything came into existence at the same time. Let’s call this everything – energy. If you probe a little deeper, you are nothing but energy. The same goes for anything and everything that surrounds you. It’s all energy; it’s the same energy that was there when everything began.

So if everything began at the same time and everything is the same energy that was present at the very beginning of time, then the only conclusion one can draw is – everything is of the same age. Or to put it more succinctly, the grandparents(energy) and the grandchildren(energy) are of the same age.

Are you thoroughly confused by now? Discombobulated as the English would say. Take the example of a Formula One or Indy or Nascar race. Tens of car start at the same time. In the very first lap there are accidents. Some drop out, the rest return to the paddock to get fixed and return to the race. As the race progresses, cars get overtaken and eventually get lapped (where the first car is now ahead by an entire lap).

So is the case with life and humans. Everything started at the same time but down the line things happened. For practical purposes we invented the past and the future. Spiritually, only the present exists. If that is the case then the past and the future don’t exist.

If the past and the future don’t exist, that means linear time is an illusion. Which means that age is an illusion because age is a derivative of time. But since we have come to the conclusion that time doesn’t exist because the past and the future don’t exist, they are but fragments of our imagination, and only the present exists, hence asking someone how old they are is irrelevant. You might re-enter the race with a new car, but the ‘you’ in the car is still the same.

We are all of the same age because we are all of the same energy. But how come this energy is uneven? Why isn’t everyone blessed with maturity? Why do fools exist or rather why do fools bloom more easily?

Water exists in three states – solid ice, flowing liquid and gaseous vapour. Scientifically they are all water, the molecular structure is the same. They are same yet different. Is there something that we need to learn from this? Maybe water wasn’t meant for drinking? Maybe we can survive without it? Maybe we’ve given birth to it through our consciousness.

Whatever be the case, this energy that we call water can exist – maybe in a million different states. Our inferior senses (that can decipher only a narrow part of the electromagnetic spectrum) can only see, feel, hear, taste and touch it as ice, water and vapour.

Maybe fools are like solid ice, dense and unmoving or they move like a glacier, 2 inches every year. Maybe those who have opened up are like water and those who have attained sainthood are like vapour, they float straight up. They are no longer tied to earthly energy and can escape what science calls gravity, which is really nothing but our “inability” to let go of all the useless stuff.