Life's Lessons

Age makes you notice certain things. For example, a persons life is broadly divided into three periods. During the first, it doesn't even occur to us that one day we will grow old, we don't think that time passes or that from the day we are born we're all walking toward a common end. After the first years of youth comes the second period, in which a person becomes aware of the fragility of life and what begins like a simple niggling doubt rises inside you like a flood of uncertainties that will stay with you for the rest of your days. Finally, towards the end of life, we reach the period of acceptance and, consequently, of resignation- a time of waiting.

This is a path we must all learn to follow on our own, hoping we won't lose our way before reaching the end. If at the beginning of our lives we were able to understand this apparently simple fact, we would be spared many of the miseries and pains of this world. But- and this is one of the great paradoxes of the universe- we are only granted this knowledge when it is already too late.

Here endth the lesson.