Development

Throughout life, experience provides the learning to go onwards, forwards and upwards. Without any learning a previous 'mistake' will probably be made again. There has to be a conscious effort to acknowledge any learning as without this, it can never be consolidated into memory.

• Stagnation occurs.

Everything moves away, but leaves the individual stuck in the past. It can certainly seem like that. Like it or not time goes onwards. The future happens physically though psychologically the present is continuous and never changes. All else changes.

• Everyone and everything moves on.

• Isolation ensues. That feeling of being alone must increase.

The ability to learn or not can be assessed as denial or, perhaps, some faulty brain chemistry. The cause is debatable though the effect is real.