Beauty is Wasted on Youth

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George Bernard Shaw once said something along the lines of ‘Youth is wasted on the young’ and I get what he means — i.e. you fritter away your life as a young person because you don’t appreciate the gift of youth.

I always wanted to be older, more grown-up, longing to do the things that my parents did like drink and smoke and swan around, seemingly without a care in the world. Whereas my world was full of angst and…