Enriching experiences

Enriching experiences Everyone has situations, in which he feels free and happy and therefore young and beautiful. The picture on the left is one of the few pictures of my life, where all these feelings apply to me. I've never been happier, felt freer and therefore younger than in this one … Continue reading “Enriching experiences”

Enriching experiences

There are situations for every person, in which he feels free and happy and therefore young and beautiful. The picture on the left is one of the few pictures of my life, where all these feelings apply to me. I've never been happier, felt freer and therefore younger than during this time with my granddaughters.

One of my favorite phrases about being young comes from George Bernard Shaw and reads:: Youth is wonderful, pity its wasted on the young (Being young is wonderful, injury, that it will be wasted on the youth). The sentence has a timeless core, but whoever watches fourteen-year-olds on their way to school these days – smoking, the head full of information from magazines for young people and in the ears "I think you suck…” -, does not necessarily give the impression of light-heartedness, Freshness and open curiosity. The commercial overfeed has, it seems to me, robbed youth of the lightness of being. In parallel, the short period of youthful beauty is calculated as high, that even 17-year-olds are afraid of getting old.