Keep Away

As a kid, you are in preparation for older days, and when you are an adult, you find yourself wishing you were back in those older days. When knowledge is specifically for something, when it will help you become whatever it is that you are clearly destined to be, then it is not so bad. But as you age, knowledge is simply byproduct, the accumulation of age, the buildup of lime on your copper pipes. Getting better at the guitar no longer has possibility to it, neither does practicing a sport, these are activities that used to be signs of a promising youth, someone who's really going to make a dent, but after awhile they turn into simple hobbies that others are surprised to find out about. If you want to age with any modicum of decency, you'll learn that the only part of your hobbies you should give up is talking about them to other people.