(May 23, 2013 at 3:53 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote:I vividly remember how I hated it when people used to play the age-card on me when I was younger, so believe me I don't do this frivolously, but I suspect you will understand when you get older. You change fundamentally as you get older, anybody does...(May 23, 2013 at 3:32 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: You'll understand once you're a proper grown-up, don't worry your little head about it for now.
When will that be? What characteristics will I posses then that I do not posses now?
(May 23, 2013 at 3:53 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Will I have to lose my ability to reason to become a "proper grown-up"?I'm a great supporter of reason, but there are things that are so complex that we have to trust our instincts, or at least leave open as "unpredictable", simply because there are so many variables involved. The human might be the most complex entity on the planet (universe?) and when two of these come together something even more complex comes into existence that can no longer be grasped, at least not by my puny little brain, and although you might really be as smart as you let on to be I suspect even you will fail to analyze this with reason.
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.
