Unoriginal Reflections

Funny how as you get older...the things you deemed to be so life-asserting when young – hierarchical position in the herd, consciousness of daring ‘cutting-edge’ fashion, conformity to Brave New World ideas, the exhibitionist desire to shock, to name some – tend now to excite, when you see the same replicated in the currently young...only feelings of poignancy.
A perennial cycle of revelation, no doubt kept secret from the young by a benign conspiracy! Still, amidst all my anxieties, what exhilarating happiness those illusory values could then sometimes be conducive of!