So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go.
ADRIAN TANSo here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go.
ADRIAN TANYou’re going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there’s no life expectancy.
ADRIAN TANYou either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.
ADRIAN TANBad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation.
ADRIAN TANWe learn the true worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul…
ADRIAN TANIt is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.
ADRIAN TANYou will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated.
ADRIAN TANThey would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.
ADRIAN TANTt continues while we’re still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we’ve worked out just what to do.
ADRIAN TANBe hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions.
ADRIAN TANIt far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise.
ADRIAN TANThere is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness.
ADRIAN TANDon’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.
ADRIAN TANThen one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role.
ADRIAN TANLife is complicated. It wtarts before we’re ready
ADRIAN TANFinally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone.
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