If I had any young people ask me for advice (which they aren’t and when I was young I also didn’t) I’d say this: the world is designed to keep you docile and distracted. If you want to do adventurous things, risk things, go far, you must do it now. If you wait it is too late. Everybody going on adventure everywhere is ill prepared. The same is true for any kind of change. People like me tell you that we’ve got it but we don’t – and by the time you realize that everybody is fumbling and improvising and you finally learned how important it is to network and to be sly and all that, to be politically active, to organize, you’re as old as me and still haven’t done a thing. Sure, it’s never too late but if you get started early, there’s still time.
And if instead you think, old man, I have done all that and more, what are you talking about? Then I am relieved and my fears are unfounded. Thank you!