Det hemska åldrandet

Jag tycker om denna devis:

Jag vill inte passa in, jag vill passa på.”

Och det är så jag ser det: det gäller att passa på att njuta av livet medan man kan. Beakta Lord Henry Wottons varning:

But we never get back our youth. The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”