I had gone from being proud to say my age—because of all I had done so young—to not bringing it up,
for fear I was getting too close to forty and, therefore, professional oblivion.
Morrie had aging in better perspective.All this emphasis on youth—I don’t buy it,” he said.
Listen, I know what a misery being young can be, so don’t tell me it’s so great.
All these kids who came to me with their struggles, their strife, their feelings of inadequacy,
their sense that life was miserable, so bad they wanted to kill themselves…
And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life.
Who wants to live every day when you don’t know what’s going on?
When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you’ll be beautiful,
or this pair of jeans and you’ll be sexy—and you believe them! It’s such nonsense.
Weren’t you ever afraid to grow old, I asked? “Mitch, I embrace aging.Embrace it?
It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two.”
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