Life Lessons: Troubling Thoughts

We live in a society, where we are taught varying subjects, topics, ideas, courses and so on.

Some of which you may have already deemed useless - depending on your aspirations and place on the spectrum of life.

Many life lessons are learnt through experiences, whether directly or indirectly.

But, a thought has been plaguing me for years now...

Why are some critical lessons not taught or introduced at different stages of life as a part of the syllabi?

Let me ask you:

Who taught you about insurance?

Health, House, Vehicle, Life.

Who taught you about the values and priorities in life such as:

Owning a home;

Owning an affordable, sustainable and efficient home or car;

Proper money management, including saving, the ever-victimizing 'credit', loans: different types to avoid, taxes;

Debt, the forever demon of many of us - whether from schooling, mortgage, car payments, medical bills;

Having a 'pension plan', through wages or through investments;

Who sat down and reasoned with you about your choices in life?

Or the upcoming expectancies?

Guided you?

A parent, guardian, friend, family member, teacher?

Were they actually listening and helping you reason through your ideas and goals?

We know that not everyone will be able to do this, therefore who speaks and listens to them?

So many schools and homes produce scholarly individual, who are sheltered and unaware of certain life expectancies.

They get caught off-guard, misguided and often times victimized.

At what point should we be made aware of these issues.

Do we allow others to stumble along as we did as a part of 'Learning about life', then toss them a rope after they fell into deep holes?

Who teaches or encourages them to get back up when they fall?

Are you one of the critics? Were you constructive?