The Distress We Carry

Growing old enables you to relinquish fears and anxieties that are more global in nature, passing them to another generation who may agonize about them if they wish, becoming angered and pained by what ought not to be. It is the role of younger people to become distraught and demanding of change. It is something to occupy them in the days between childhood and a time of quiet. Hopefully, they will be more ready to see and accept the quiet, more willing to relinquish the world's distress, and maybe one day there will be no distress to let go of, no anxiety to pass on.