Pharos: The Lighthouse column explores the theme of discovery

How To Not Become Jaded

Peter Pharos, 16.06.2022

Curiosity or comfort? Untrodden paths or familiar routes? As the years advance, our columnist finds it is as precious to lose oneself in favourite pastimes as in new pursuits.

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One of the most benevolent aspects of the human mind is how it treats our passage through time. For the young person, everything is new and exciting. Differences are to be celebrated and savoured, a reflection of the glorious multiformity of the world. The offbeat and unusual merit particular attention, the novel the most. Life moves simultaneously very fast and very slow.

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