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In reply to the discussion: There is nothing wrong with Porn & Prostitution [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)I've got to say at least anecdotally that the way one looks at the world can change drastically over time. A lot of those trite old expressions are true, in a way, which is how they wound up being trite old expressions. Like 'youth is wasted on the young'. Most of us probably wasted a lot of our time on earth because we never really gave a lot of thought towards working towards a specific purpose and life path early on, and instead merely did what other people told us we should. Go to school, get good grades, go to college...as if it was some magic mantra, and didn't need to be paired with an actual goal.
If I were magically young again, I would like to think that I would dedicate myself with more focus towards long term goals, and not simply go along in cruise control for the first three decades or so, before I woke up and realized I needed to take charge of my own life. (Now part of that might simply have been a result of privilege. If I were a minority, I wouldn't have had the ability to have spent so much time on 'cruise control', and would probably be in jail or dead by now if I had. I had the 'privilege' of wasting my life : P ...)