The years teach much which the days never know. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course experience changes us all, and in ways that our younger selves would never truly understand. As a prepubescent, read every book about sex, but I doubt that you will have anything interesting to say on the matter until you've doused the fire in your loins together with another human being. A bright teen is a brilliant thinking machine, but mere logical consistency is not truth. At some point, we turn our backs on questions that once preoccupied us, less because we've found the a... (read more)
The years teach much which the days never know. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course experience changes us all, and in ways that our younger selves would never truly understand. As a prepubescent, read every book about sex, but I doubt that you will have anything interesting to say on the matter until you've doused the fire in your loins together with another human being. A bright teen is a brilliant thinking machine, but mere logical consistency is not truth. At some point, we turn our backs on questions that once preoccupied us, less because we've found the a... (read more)