There is a saying that with age comes wisdom, but is this true? In
some cases yes. Often, the man who ages learns from his mistakes and makes
fewer of them as he has acquired wisdom. In other cases however, nothing is
learned, suffering is not vanquished as the same desires that plagued the young
man now make ill the old man. The angry young man soon turns into the angry old
man. As the song goes, “For in our hearts the dreams are still the same.” The
man who chased his desires as a youngster falls into the same trap at an
advanced age. The avant-garde soon becomes the old guard and eventually there
is a changing of the guard.
