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The wisdom of old(er) age is simultaneously knowing that and not being bothered by that. I mean the feeling of regret, not you hating that statement LOL. Its
by VLM 11y ago
The wisdom of old(er) age is simultaneously knowing that and not being bothered by that. I mean the feeling of regret, not you hating that statement LOL.
Its the mid-life crisis types that get all wound up and messed up about the wouldda-shouldda game. Its a bell shaped curve of being too young to have a past to fulminate over, to OMG I messed everything up, to the new definition of the past is stuff that no longer matters.
Due to wildly varying maturity rates this happens somewhere between maybe 25 and ... never.
- disease 11y agoVery well said. Somewhat tangentially, as I've grown older I come to value forgetting things more and more.