Eager youth looks at age with disdain - perhaps scornfully, even.
Age is so far distant that it is uncool to think about it. As for memories, well, they’re a waste of space and time. Who cares?
Now is the moment and gathering years are too far off the scale to contemplate. Live it and love it.
Youth forgets (or ignores) that each day ages and cannot grasp at 18 that 60 is going to come around, all things being equal.
Age is gross! How can older people have loved and, God forbid, had sex? The notion doesn’t bear thinking about. Sex is for youth only, exclusively.
How misguided, how self-focused!
But we are, all of us, like-minded in the youngest days and nothing else matters except the next flash-second and the one after that, and...
Will Death tap us on the shoulder?
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