  I am a child. Young in the world; even younger than I have, perhaps, ever been. I was always a precocious student, and so even in the early days of my education I found succor in books and learning new things.
But I have always had a predilection towards arrogance, arguably my greatest flaw. The combination of my natural arrogance and the environment I now find myself in is one that I find quite caustic to my emotional stability. I am not doing something I enjoy, in that I find office work degrading, and in that I find some of the people I work with degrading. Unfortunately, this is reality; we need jobs to pay rent, we need money to live, and so we work regardless of how it affects our quality of life and mind. I am still truly grateful for the work I have, and that I can manage to pay my bills and still have time to pursue my arts.
At the job I work right now, I am barely competent. I am not interested in working farther than meeting new people, and keeping my job. It is a position that many people have; they do X for a living, where the value of X means little or nothing. I am an X. Fill in the blank, it doesn't matter one way or the other. If I am young, and I posit here than I am, and if I am arrogant, a fact proven beyond a shadow of a doubt many, many times, then I am also agonizingly so.
I am so brilliantly young and naive, that the state itself has intrinsic value. We continue to live by the assumption that wisdom breeds with age, but so little bears that out. I have, in my own short life time, met the oldest fools and the youngest sages, and I was impressed by neither. The perspective of youth may be less informed by life experience, but it is also not burdened with the same trepidation with which adults approach new situations, new problems.
It has value in and of itself, this fresh outlook, and that has been shown time and time again in the arts and sciences, in music and literature. The young change paradigms. Yes, I am often very wrong. And yes, I am often very convinced that I am not. But I learn so much from these experiences. Is it so much to think that I may learn something from them, that you never did? 
