Youth Without Youth : The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

From nytimes.com We come on earth to live and yet we prepare for a living.

We like to claim love and lust and longing while we live but what runs parallel is murder, bombs and destruction. Does the end justify the means. Is a nuclear catastrophe important so that the survivors do not make weapons again.
Japan suffered a nuclear catastrophe and is least likely to use nuclear force today. They make the best robots and cars. Is this evolution. Survival of the fittest. On the evolution scale is Japan superior to all.

What is youth. Youth is a memory. Can you be young with the memory of youth. You will be old when you remember the young days. Can youth be reclaimed after experience. Can you relive the youth if you are made younger, given hard bones, hair, teeth and muscles. Or do you only do what you didn’t when you were younger before.

Science can give knowledge to people. Knowledge is power; but not at the cost of life. Life was given to you. And your biggest accomplishment would be life. If knowledge alone is absolute power, scientists would not die. However, a scientist will die and so will a beggar. So would you kill for science.

Without your discovery of truth, the truth will prevail. We were apes; we lost the tail without our effort. Evolution will take care of humans. Evolution is time.
Then, it is not prudent to kill a life to discover truth.

What is better. kill a life for a better but unforeseeable future. Or live with her. Perhaps live without her and live in her memory. Another page to your memory-book.
When you are old and dying, you regret not the unaccomplished work or the lost love, but cherish the life and the impending death.

Francis Ford Coppola writes and directs Youth Without Youth.

A Note:
Perhaps what we call ‘the truth’ or ‘mystery of life’ lies in the simple, and we are afraid of the simple. We build the complex around us so it is difficult to reach the simple.

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Youth Without Youth

on June 26, 2009

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