"As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it."
But people always say 'Oh, if I were young again.'
You never hear people say, 'I wish I were sixty-five'
"You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more."
But the truth is, people still want to go back.
I, myself, wish to go back, to fix everything up. But the fact is life's going on. You never come back. The past stays past. What I can do is just looking back for a lesson, so I do not repeat the same things. But still, people make mistakes. Nobody's perfect.
I wish I can go far away, learn from the other people, the other cultures. How life means to them.
But as people say,
There's still something good in everything around you if you just want to see it. And that is what I am trying to learn now.
And you too, we all do.
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