On youth and aging

Augusta 2022-04-22 07:01:31

I hate the subject, the jealousy and possessiveness, even desire, of the young by the poor old man with nothing. What did you do when you were young? In American Beauty, a forty-year-old middle-aged man suddenly finds that all his dreams when he was young are shattered and struggling. When the old woman in this movie is forty, she can choose to start from scratch or end there. There is a girl next to me who wants to die before he is forty, and a boy who only wants to live until he is thirty. Life is beautiful because it is young, and it takes accumulation and wisdom to grow old, in order to age calmly and gracefully, emitting a warm light, even if it is not as dazzling and dazzling as youth, it is full of energy and can illuminate the shadows.

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  • Barbara Covett: When I was young I had such a vision of myself. I dreamed I'd be someone to be reckoned with, you know, in the world. But one learns one's scale. I've such a dread of ending my days alone. But recently, I've allowed myself to think that I may not be. Am I wrong?

  • Barbara Covett: People like Sheba think they know what it is to be lonely. But of the drip, drip of the long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. What it's like to construct an entire weekend around a visit to the launderette. Or to be so chronically untouched that the accidental brush of a bus conductor's hand sends a jolt of longing straight to your groin. Of this, Sheba and her like have no clue.