“In my younger and more vulnerable years…” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
When I was young and perhaps a little bit vulnerable, my memory was almost empty. So if you have some questions like:
you must look out at the outer world for the answer and do not look into your own memory.
And after coming a long way down the track, someday you will notice that you are doing an exhaustive search of your memory for an answer, thinking “There must be an answer there, because I have done it before“.
So getting old is, for one thing, not being vulnerable any more, but becoming too much self-contained for another.
I think I should always try to do something new (a new language? a new skill?) to avoid being excessively self‐sufficient.
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