nicoleAt age 27, adolescence and senescence can seem impossibly, at times melodramatically, close to one another. Three months no longer pass without someone one knows getting engaged. It is beautiful to see people build their futures and array their most intimate spheres. It is also one of the signposts that remind one of the ceaseless movement of age. Yet, even for those of us still living as students, or unmarried, or residing in our parents’ homes, we are not frozen in ‘age’ until we reach such signposts. Perception and meaning of time and age may vary, but the finiteness of one’s life remains, impelling us to set goals and construct our futures in such a way that makes best use of borrowed time.

What then measures successful use or enjoyment of a finite time that holds nearly infinite possibility? The paradoxical limitlessness and limitedness of our existence is perhaps what leads generation after generation, despite its idiosyncratic rebellions, to recourse to many of its inherited, conventional understandings of ‘success.’

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