Thanks for the lovely photo...when I see pictures like those, I always lament that one of my unfulfilled desires is to photograph LIFE, people, places, things...I am 6 years into retirement and I may yet fulfill this dream...as in second wind...
So, what's in a number? 27? 28? 29? Remember, they only have meanings because society constructed meanings for them...Note how our so-called debutantes at 18 years are "presented" to society in elaborate debut balls...
Do you know the historial antecedent of the debut in Europe ( which we don't share...)? 18 years used to be the time when their women are ready to become wives/mothers and are presented to the eligible males to be chosen... sus, how can you "present' somebody at 18 when they are having sex at 9???
I am re-reading a book now by Levinson titled Seasons in a man's life. It details the psychological, physical and hormonal changes that happen to women/men and how , because of the constructions and strictures of society, they are "expected" to do certain things at certain ages...this is where failed expectations come in, the angsts, the sense of failure, despair...
Why do singers/rockers kill themselves at an early age? I guess it may have something to do with the dog-eat dog life in the entertainment world where you have to sell your soul to be ahead of the game. It is also on account of the ungodly hours that they spend on the road, practising , etc so their body clocks have to be adjusted by drugs...the road from there is a slippery slope to a sense of hopelessness and despair and a sigh away from self destruction...Just a hypothesis...
Will be in US on 17th. Let's have lunch when I get back...
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