Old World Blues: Why Our Past Win Our Hearts

But that does not mean we are doomed to be miserable. It means that as your progress further, the need to inventive ways becomes less in its urgency as your mind settled in your old age. 

This brings back to what my title suggest all along: that our past, or more precisely the way we used to conduct ourselves, no matter what state you are, will always be crowned by your heart. You will like the things you are used to decades later and hardly accept most of the newcomers. Does that mean it is wrong? Of course not! You are comfortable with the ways you know and there is nothing wrong with that. Just be you!

So, to close this article: when you are healthy and happy with your life, you would always have a fondness to your past. But when you look at yourself at the mirror and all you can feel is loath, then that’s when you will have problems with youngsters down the road as you cane them with the faux pride that you desperately hold on to.

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