In the innocence of youth, it is the highest goal to reach that pinnacle of being "grown up". It's so hard to know that when that day comes, your greatest wish will be to relive the carefree times of your youth.
This great irony seems to be the maxim of human life; We can never appreciate the place and time we are in.
The purpose of school is to get ready for a job, then once you've got a job you start wishing for retirement, yet when retirement rolls around, you just want to be young again.
Why can't we slow down and breathe?
You can't try to build happiness in a future you may never reach, and the sins of the past are dead and gone.
Break free of the skeletal grasp inhibiting your journey and try to live a little.
Life, happiness, peace, these are possessed in the now, in that magical little sphere over which you have influence, but not quite power.
Listen to your elders, believe what the old tell you, and know this: you will never be happier than you are right now.
