Youth is defined by growth and curiosity. We don't lose this to time, we lose this to the assumption that we know better. It is not a passive process, as the ar

Youth is defined by growth and curiosity. We don't lose this to time, we lose this to the assumption that we know better. It is not a passive process, as the article suggests ...he was slowly stripped of his Youth, but an active one that we are in control of. I know this doesn't help if you had time-bound goals for your life, but I have to stress, people actually don't care. Raymond Chandler was not "uncovered, like toxic waste" when he published The Big Sleep, his first novel, at 42, but celebrated as anyone else.