I remember once when I had been invited to a party as
a small child and the conversation among the children
drifted to death... they asked me if I'd had relatives
who died, and I said yes, and then they asked whether
I was sad, and I said, "I'm not sure." They thought I
was a monster, or something... I sincerely hadn't
sorted out my feelings towards death, feeling I didn't
have sufficient information at the time.
I decided to go home and half the people were bawling
their eyes out... it was disastrous.
Never quite felt different from other people as much
as I did on that day.
--- Stirling Westrup <sti@cam.org> wrote:
> john grigg wrote:
>
> > And yet the world would be a better place if
> people could choose early in
> > life certain neuro mods that gave them the type of
> maturity and emotional
> > makeup they wanted for themselves. I have known
> so many people who dearly
> > wish as youth they had the wisdom and maturity
> they have now in their later
> > years.
>
> People always want to change what is. I sometimes
> dearly wish that I had
> *NOT* had as much maturity and wisdom in my youth as
> I did. I never did
> have that feeling of invulnerability that the young
> are supposed to have,
> and I always carefully weighed the pros and cons of
> any proposed plan of
> action. The result was that I never did any of the
> 'wild and crazy' things
> that my friends all remember so fondly, and would
> never do again...
>
>
> --
> Stirling Westrup | Use of the Internet by this
> poster
> sti@cam.org | is not to be construed as a
> tacit
> | endorsement of Western
> Technological
> | Civilization or its
> appurtenances.
>
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