Contemporaries

One of life’s subtle ironies, is that many of the people that you might think of as you ‘contemporaries’ are not really your contemporaries at all. Think of all the little kids you meet out there daily. You and them occupy the same neighborhood at the same time, yet you will never really meet. Because they’re not yet mature enough to get to know you for who you are, and by the time they are mature enough, YOU will no longer be ontop of things anymore. You will never be able to get to know their adult selves, and they’ll never get to know your adult self, so it is really like you never met…

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