Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.