The Secret of Youth

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Anyways, If you are checking out this site for a balm or potion, I apologize, but I can't help you there.

People do want the fountain of youth to be young again. Some of them are doing it because they want to be a teenager again, some want to be a child again.

Maybe it's a case of the youth being wasted on the young, but if you wish you had my age and life, I suggest you get your head examined.



I think it's only to a small degree that people wish they had the bodies of their youth. The main desire is to be the underdog that you are when you are young. They want the lowered expectations that they claimed not to want when they were young.

"It's a sobering thought, for instance, that when Mozart was my age...he'd been dead for two years." -- Tom Leher

"Last week I had my birthday, I made it thirty-four,
Mere mortal, not immortal, not starcrust anymore,
I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore.
A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar." -- Harry Chapin



When you are the underdog it stands as the best of both worlds--it's exciting when you win, and understandable when you lose.

It seems that people want to keep this going. As long as I am immediately underestimated because I am only 20, just as I would underestimate somebody who is only ten, the system continues. But since then even centenians would be underestimated by other centenians (working on the false assumption that there is no peak) does the age really matter?

In standard life, I have found that it isn't really the number of years that make a person mature in the world's eyes, it, and I am not thrilled to admit it, is levels pertaining to sex. First level is the young child. This kid, up to a level in elementry school, has no idea what sex is, sees people in love, but doesn't understand anything more than the feelings of love it sometimes has for the parents.

Let's call this the "Rockwell Stage." That's exactly what he drew (a lot of the time), little kids feigning love without yet knowing what sex was. People want to go back to this time See, all twelve of those steps would be agreed upon as truthful by about 95% of the knowledgable population. A few of the links are questionable perhaps, but nothing outlandish. There are no puns, This isn't "God is love, Love is blind, Ray Charles is blind, God is Ray Charles," it's linear, without word games.