On the other, I am grateful that I am no longer young. With age comes a seasoning that makes one more or less inured to life's difficulties and inoculated to its many lies. There is a resting knowledge that cannot be replicated in youth, youth that pines for a future that never comes as expected. If I were to offer any advice to the young, it would be to seize the day and enjoy the process of making a way for tomorrow, with faith, hope, and charity.
And then there is the historical reality that I would not want to be young in a world such as ours, when the world is more insane than ever, and bound to get worse. This is why I pray for my children and my grandson, and why I keep trying, in spite of seemingly insurmountable odds, to make the world more habitable for them, to endow them with liberty and hope, and to enshrine the present by leaving a legacy to them that may be meaningful and serve as a guide for them. I hope one day that they will read my works and realize that was part of my life's mission.
~ Michael Rectenwald
(This quote was provided by Tom Woods. Tom writes: "It's very rare to find someone late in his career, and in his 50s, who has a complete philosophical transformation. But that's what happened with the great Michael Rectenwald, an ex-Marxist formerly of New York University... Well, the other day he wrote something rather melancholy and introspective -- yet determined and fearless, too, that I thought you might want to see.")
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