— Maggie O’Farrell, After You’d Gone
There is this thing I hold dear to my heart, yet it's so.. so far from the reach of my hand...
Is this deja vu all over again?
But this time, a little clearer, a little wiser,
Is it true
that ignorance is bliss
that happiness in intelligent people are the rarest thing
Children are afraid of imaginary objects that adults dont, yet so courageous of the real things we're afraid to touch, the things we always find excuses not to try out.
My professor once explained why time seems to pass by much faster as we grow old. When we were kids, growing up was like an adventure. There are so much knowledge and concepts to explore, and the process of learning new things day by day makes time appear longer, and fascinating. As we grow, the more we know about the world, the less surprising and fun life becomes. In order to stay young at mind, always learn something new everyday. And if growing up is an adventure, growing old is, now, like a habit of repeated routines.
And I wonder if that's what I've spent all these years trying to achieve, to grow old with the heart of a child.
"Some people die at twenty-five and aren't buried till they're seventy-five"
- Benjamin Franklin
"Some people are old at eighteen and some are young at ninety. Time is a concept human created."
- Yoko Ono
"I dreamed a thousand new path. I woke and walked my old one."
- Chinese proverb
"Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have."
— Amanda Hocking, Ascend
