A paradox is a contradiction that is mostly concerned with the natural world and/or human feelings and behaviour.
For example, it is a paradox that older people have more patience than teenagers.
One would think, because older people have less time left to live that they’d be in a hurry, and that the teenagers would be the ones with the patience.
And staying on the theme of young/old, and learning, I often feel that children/young people, whose brains are sponges when it comes to learning, and who have nothing else to do, are not that interested in formal education as such. As we get older, we seem to have more interest in doing courses, improving ourselves, being involved in formal education, even though we find it really difficult because we have far less time.
Another paradox might be that even though we know prevention is better than cure, (or, as the proverb goes – a stitch in time saves nine) we almost always chose (expensive) cure over (inexpensive) prevention. This is totally illogical if we think of it.
And a paradox that is fundamental to our existence! The very trait that enabled us to evolve from a single celled organism to a human being – competition – has also contributed (and is still contributing) to great harm, through poverty, famine, war, pollution, and now degradation of our natural world.
Beneath these apparent contradictions of logic there are always deeper considerations.
Paradox is a very common feature in our lives. I mention it quite a bit because it is part of the natural world which is central to our existence anyway.