The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.
I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past.
The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.
I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back.
Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.
Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
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