Coming of Age
Via : https://juliansummerhayes.substack.com/p/were-not-easily-persuaded
Stephen Jenkinson said in Come of Age :
“There are exceptions, no doubt, but it seems to me now that crunch times in human affairs tend not to transform very much.
Instead, they seem to congeal and to intensify what is already there, sometimes to an almost impenetrable degree of faux
clarity and indefensible, intolerant conviction about right and wrong, about love and leaving and limit and ending.
Crunch time turns out to be one of those times when “right” and “wrong” are only two of a handful of possible
actions and outcomes. You’d think that getting old enough, and old enough to know better, would serve someone
in good stead, that good judgement would prevail. It turns out that getting old is one of those ragged,
dissembling crunch times, too. If you wait for the wisdom of age to take over, you often wait in vain.”
dr. π (pi)
.
Stephen Jenkinson said in Come of Age :
“There are exceptions, no doubt, but it seems to me now that crunch times in human affairs tend not to transform very much.
Instead, they seem to congeal and to intensify what is already there, sometimes to an almost impenetrable degree of faux
clarity and indefensible, intolerant conviction about right and wrong, about love and leaving and limit and ending.
Crunch time turns out to be one of those times when “right” and “wrong” are only two of a handful of possible
actions and outcomes. You’d think that getting old enough, and old enough to know better, would serve someone
in good stead, that good judgement would prevail. It turns out that getting old is one of those ragged,
dissembling crunch times, too. If you wait for the wisdom of age to take over, you often wait in vain.”
dr. π (pi)
.