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.

The more I see of human lives, the more I believe the business of growing up is much longer drawn out than we pretend.

Jonathan Quaade

“Retirement is lame” - Jeff Bezos

The more I see of human lives, the more I believe the business of growing up is much longer drawn out than we pretend. If we achieve it in our 30's, even our 40s, we're doing well.

pbs.org • John Gardner : Education and Excellence

I love that he uses the word pretend here.
Is he referring to how children pretend to be adults?
That we all don’t really know what we are doing

lot of our conversations over the last few days have really been around how to really break the apathy that I think we’re currently experiencing, especially in youth culture. I think that’s largely due to the lack of images to really truly energize people

Baukunst • This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director

If you believe something, you will find the proof to support it.

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... 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.

You come to terms with yourself. You finally grasp what S. N. Behrman meant when he said "At the end of every road you meet yourself." You may not get rid of all of your hang-ups, but you learn to control them to the point that you can function productively and not hurt others.

pbs.org • John Gardner : Education and Excellence

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

– Thilo Alex Brunner, chief design officer at On

pbs.org • John Gardner : Education and Excellence

Baukunst • This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director

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

pbs.org • John Gardner : Education and Excellence

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