indiana evans….

in our youth, we are a bit more optimistic. we have less to be afraid of, less to lose and are more open to failures. we bounce when we fall. the lights seem brighter, the world is a bright place, it is for our enjoyment and the endless choices are all good. bad ideas are few and far between and we have a plethora of hope. as we age, this hope for a brighter future tends to dissipate a bit. we have seen many things, we know they way things could end up and we begin to dislike change….

….we want things to go a certain way, and if they do not we get mad. our minds race, our heart rate goes up and we lose our temper. we have little in the way for understanding if things do not. if a line does not move fast enough, if our colleagues cannot get the meaning, if our children act up. in later age, we are set upon a simple philosophy, it is our way or no way at all. we get less applicable, less understanding and more inpatient. our bodies follow this as well. it bends less, it does not deal so well with extreme situations or weather, like our mind it does not like change.

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what will it be like to go to sleep and never wake up?

what was it like to wake up after never going to sleep?

-alan watts