Young and naive

One of the things with me is that I have this need to self reflect. I'm sure if you ask any of my past flatmates this they would all tell stories of us just going on and on and on analyzing our feelings and relationships with other people, work, and self-image. The only way I can explain it is the meme about English teachers overanalyzing every little detail in every sentence when the author probably never thought that the color of the drapes would mean so many things. I couldn't find the specific one that I mean but this is close enough:

The latest big topic of my thoughts has been the thought of being young and naive. One of my relatives described some politician along the lines of her being good as she wasn't as young and naive as the other options. It got me thinking...am I young and naive? I must be. I'm young so it would make all the sense that I am. But before that moment I had never thought about it. Hearing the sentence never felt like it applied to me.

Now since starting with a new company this has gotten even more got stuck with me. Even with a couple of months, I have been in many situations where I have realized that this is it, this is how I am young and naive. I'm being overly optimistic and clearly not having too much experience in what I am doing. It feels kind of bizarre because there is not really anything you can do. You cannot force yourself to not be young or not be naive at those moments. The whole idea is that you are already doing your best.

From there we get to the next question: is it a bad thing? Knowing that my relative used the term in a negative sense speaks to it being negative at least from one perspective. But after all this time of diving into it, I think it doesn't need to be. We should explore being young and naive, and precisely being young and naive is what gets us to be "old and not naive". Thus I have come to the decision to full-heartedly love every too optimistic decision and make and learn from them. I am young and naive now so that I in the future I won't be.