Every generation thinks the next one is ruining things. Prove yours wrong by being good to the very young and the very old.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Complaining about the young is an old habit and it has nearly always been wrong. The argument never gets settled by arguing, either, because almost nobody changes their mind about a whole generation. What they change their mind about is the particular sixteen year old who was kind to their mother. You are the only evidence actually available.
Be specifically good to somebody much older or much younger than you this week. Carry something, explain something, sit with a kid who is bored. None of it is a statement about your generation, and it works quietly like one.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
When were you last genuinely kind to someone much older?
MORE IN TIME, MORTALITY & LEGACY
- Five minutes late every day is thirty hours a year. Time leaks in small amounts.
- Sunday nights feel heavy because the weekend you didn’t use is leaving. Use a little more of the next one.
- Teach the new kid the shortcut you figured out. Keeping it to yourself doesn’t make you important. Passing it on does.
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