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Oh, to Be Young
“But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?”
—Charlotte Bronte
Oh, to be Young . . .
you don’t know
what you don’t know
therefore you know everything
nothing is impossible
all things are possible
therefore your possibilities are limitless
full of self-confidence
belief in self-worth
therefore you can accomplish anything
oblivious to reality
sheltered from hardships
therefore unprepared for inevitable failures
with the wisdom of age
and the experience of life lived
therefore deriving the impossible balance
between knowledge and innocence