#if you've never heard of it i highly recommend reading the essay and listening to the song

[butthatsanothershow]

"Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders."

-Mary Schmich in "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" more commonly known as "Wear Sunscreen" (words popularized by Baz Luhrmann's "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)")

damn it's almost like these are all lies people tell themselves to justify their knee-jerk disdain for change and their weird hatred of younger people in general