small typo ” read ” Barba NON facit….”

how pedantic !

I know a few young people with the common sense and wisdom that place them well above some seventy year olds.

At – fortunate times ! – youth carries hope, energy, humbleness and the desire to prove one’s worth and acceptance by the community for their genuine qualities. Education of the most complex type, familial and academic contribute to the worth a dedicated individual .
BUT that is ONLY if the individual knows as early as childhood the distinction between character development of the finest type and years wasted playing footy , on the beach, at never ending parties, the joys of drinkin’, smokin’, macho bravado in and out of pubs, adorning one’s figure with tatts, boys AND girls, not resting one’s eyes on a single book, “acquiring” the pride of unbelievable ignorance, dolling up, latest fashion, latest car, Mum’ and Dad’ credit cards at their disposal, gap yearS of trotting uselessly the globe, some “academy” in Israel for one full year and coming back with – luckily – five words in Ivrit etc.

At – unfortunate !! – times, old age is accompanied by the arrogance of conceit, the vanity that comes about with one’s accolades for former glory, a sense of greater importance and anxiety to show that certain others are bellow one’s – “acquired “- station. A sense of false, entitlement combined with the dismissive attitude to those who would not have chalked the said “accalim”.
Old age must carry the clear clarification : modesty, consideration of all others, endowed with genuinely useful values.

Somenone, please tell me to stop !

( see the ensuing list !!! )