Pining for youth

Those who continually live in the days of their youth as the pinnacle of their existence have either closed doors of opportunity through their decisions or failed to open new ones revealing new adventures. Their clinging to the past is evidence of an unwillingness to cope with the rigor of life's greater challenges and discover the value of new opportunities for creating an abundant life. Those "halcyon years" of youth were never meant to last forever. Each phase of life has its own joys and its own sorrows. The innocence of youth is unburdened by the cares of experience, but the joys of perspective belong to the seasoned.