Generational advice tends to fall flat for me, though i recognize it might help some people.

That and the inverse, its never too late, stuff. Again—helpful for some probably, just not for me.

I fail in new and inventive ways every day and every morning i try to start again. Every 5 years i look back at the past 5 years and wonder what i was thinking and how i will ever recover. I look forward to the next five years as if finally, i am wise, it is time to do it all correctly. Rinse and repeat, and endless cycle.

Whatever age you are: 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, even someone like John Ward who is so old he remembers when the earth began to cool: whatever age, life is for living. I am not saying, “go do that stupid thing.” I am saying, God gave us a life so we could live with it.

As Longfellow said:

“Life is real, life is earnest

And the grave is not the goal

Dust thou art, to dust returnest

Was not spoken of the soul”