on youth will never end / Stop worrying about getting older...

on youth will never end / Stop worrying about getting older

“Youth must end,” youth will not end. I am still full of freshness; I am like a springtime. I have a great, flowing river in me, something that keeps churning and never ceases.

Stop worrying about getting older

Jonathan Quaade

“Like the founders themselves, I had no former footwear experience.”

– Thilo Alex Brunner, chief design officer at On

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Indeed, Metahaven are very much part of the world they critique. They cite their own “YouTube addictions” as an influence on their work, and they’re not about to start throwing their devices away just yet. “We’re not really into this idea of, ‘Go back to a 96 Nokia and enjoy reality,’” says Van der Velden. Instead, they want to look forward.

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So there has to be some year where you decide: in this part of my life, I know what I value. I am choosing; I am committing. And now I’m thinking of another idea I came across years ago—it must have been after I’d finished my bachelor’s, when I first started working as a designer—about devoting a year to going deeper, not wider.

and since i have never said ‘youth must end,’ youth will not end

In The Bell Jar, Plath writes (bolding mine):

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and an... See more

She understands that children are a pleasure-seeking species, and that adolescence is a delicious last gasp (the light is most golden just before the shadows fall) of rightful selfishness and cluelessness.

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