When we are young, we are stupid.
When we are young, we are naïve and hopeful. The present may seem bad but the future will always bring new experiences and like a tide, wash over the flotsam that our lives have seem to become.
When we are young, we assume we will meet many more 'the ones' in the future who we’ll share with what we haven't ever before. We may have met someone just now and we may not want to be sure yet and therefore decide to not hedge our bets on just this. But we connect with someone with all our sincerity only once. The cynic/skeptic impedes any new meetings.
When we are young, we search for the moment that will hold the world around us still. A moment we can return to in our head time and time again. But every time we do, the present impinges upon the past and its perception is coloured by how we live in the present. The past is lost..... no matter how bad or good it was.
When we are young, we long to meet a fleeting glance that will stand still when it meets ours hoping that in that moment alone an eternity could be lived together.
When we are young, we seek happiness wherever we can find it, even if it’s the rush of spending an evening with someone you’ve just met. The evening wears out and the night brings with itself unpredictability but we don’t step back. It’s later you look back and don’t regret doing that. After all you think, ‘How would I have valued who I’m with now if I hadn’t known the odds with all the people it didn’t work with.” But what if, the person you’re with now makes you want to go back to your youth and moments' of unpredictability. What if everything in place doesn’t excite you at all in life today? What would you have chosen or would you have known better?
I’d still want to be young and a bit naïve as well but most of all hopeful.
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