When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling clearly, and in a way, it pushes you to become present in the present.
When I was 15, I never thought I'd live to see 21. And then I became 21, and I'm like, 'I'll never live to see 30.'
Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, 'Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?'
When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.'
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
When I was 20 I was like, 'I'm not a teenager anymore. I got this.' But when I look back I'm like, 'Oh no. Oh no. You did not.'
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.
The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.
I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.