Lifestyle Philosophy

Only Mediocrity Gets Old

I don’t like old people

I don’t like the old

I like the new

 

To be old is to cease changing is to be dead

That’s the true meaning of being old

It’s to close one’s mind

Is to close oneself from life

 

Conversely

does it worry me, the passing of time?

does it worry me, getting old?

it doesn’t

really, I don’t get old

there’s nothing getting old about me

 

I know you worry about getting old

Please don’t

Whatsoever passes — leaves room for the emergence of the new

 

I want you to let die of your “youth”

So that you can stay truly young

Young in the spirit and mind

Youthful in energy and innocence

For that you must let go of your attachment to being a certain way

 

…being young and strong and beautiful

I like beautiful

I like strong

but the reality is that of a constant flux

constant transformation

you could call it “impermanence”, call it annica

i call it evolution, transformation, transmutation

there is nothing ever lost

there is only change

I like beautiful

beauty manifests in you then transcends you

youthful energy manifests in you, then expands

let this unravelling emerge, without resistance

it’s beautiful

 

if you only see

truly see

the whole

the notion of SOMETHING BEING a certain way, it will occur to you as so ludicrously fragmentary and insignificant

how could beauty end?

how could energy end?

how could the ever-changing unravelling cease?

how could that river stop?

it’s impossible

 

don’t worry about getting old