I've long wondered about whether adults really aren't wiser than children. Smarter, yes, but the wisdom might be largely a blob of limiting and pessimistic beliefs. And a very fragmented wisdom: adults argue and wage wars over the right ways to live. And if we aren't condemning others for their lifestyles and views on life, it might be because we are too busy trying to find our own purpose and path.
Does it really take a lifetime to gain wisdom about life? Or is it adults that unlearn the wisdom of childhood, and forever after that struggle to find wisdom in an adult paradigm which is fundamentally flawed?
Sounds like you're asking abstract questions instead of concrete ones. The concrete questions will have concrete answers and you can go from there.
With abstract questions, you can sit around wondering for eternity. Unless you come to recognize that you're not getting anywhere (life will remind you soon enough) and do something concrete instead :)
If you replace wisdom with 'competence' it becomes much more down to earth. When somebody else is feeding, clothing, scheduling, teaching etc and all you have to do is use your base instincts, it's easy to be competent, you don't need to do anything.
When you have to feed, clothe, schedule, teach etc yourself AND others AND then some, it can be quite a challenge.
Children are not competent at much of anything, so there you go :)
Abstract questions are great when you don't quite know what to hone in on, so that you don't get prematurely bogged down in specifics. Specifics which might be superflouous to your question, or maybe even misleading. They are also great when you want to have a general conversation with a general crowd, where more broad and general questions and topics can facilitate more discussion with several people, whereas more concrete, opinionated and assumptious questions would only attract a few others if anyone. As for myself, my own suspicions and enquires are a bit more focused and opinionated than you might get the impression of here.
As for asking more concrete questions in this place, I see little point. At least as far as your benefit is concerned since you know everything on this topic already.
Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox,
Like on the way up to the terrace in the spring.
I alone am inert, giving no sign,
*Like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.*
I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.
Other people have more than they need,
I alone seem wanting.
I have the mind of a fool,
Understanding nothing.
Does it really take a lifetime to gain wisdom about life? Or is it adults that unlearn the wisdom of childhood, and forever after that struggle to find wisdom in an adult paradigm which is fundamentally flawed?