You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wrong. It comes with an ease that I've found has kind of deteriorated over time.
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There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.
It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?
When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.
Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.
I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.
I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.
After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.
When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.
As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.
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