Life's Lament
Growing older is a stage in life. It doesn't matter if you are young or old, the constant is always the progression of age. Coupled with this, is the feeling of being left behind. It happens to us usually when we are associated with a group. We seldom hearken back to a moment in time, rather a period of life when our minds and emotions were satisfied. When we shared a commonality with others in an experience. Youth provides fertile ground for this. It is a unique stage of life when we are surrounded by a group experiencing exactly the same thing. We see them day to day and often feel the same frustrations, the same pain. It is a time when others share our age and we gaze out through the window of life from the same perspective. I think for this reason when we age we often look back at our youthful years with nostalgia like none others. They were a time of innocence when our lives were still largely unwritten. Life presented few constraints over possibility. For this