In פרק יב פסוק א it says, “וזכור את בוראיך בימי בחורותיך עד אשר לא יבואו ימי הרעה והגיעו שנים אשר תאמר אין לי בהם חפץ”. Translating to mean: recognize your creator in your youth before you become older and see evil. For example when you become older you won't enjoy swimming or doing the sports you love because you cannot physically do so. It is the same with this idea that is talked about in Kohelet. Just like your physical body prevents you from enjoying what you use to love to do, the evil in the physical world prevents you from seeing our creator.
There is an idea in the Torah about how a youth's prayers are so much stronger than an adult's. Maybe it is because of this idea that the youth mean what they are saying when they pray because they don't see any evil in the world yet. But once you get older, and you are thanking G0d could it really be sincere because of all the evil that happens around you?
This concept, like Racheli's, links to what Charlie Harary talked about in one of his speeches. He talked about the idea that children who still haven't understood the world yet are the only ages that truly sincerely laugh at a joke or at something they think is funny. This can be the same type of concept as the one above. That they don't know their surroundings, and they are not aware of all the bad around them, so they don't have anything preventing them from laughing and having sincere fun.
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