Water-colours of

Marcel Reynaert
Getting older is the only way to live long.
The age of maturity is that age at which one is
still young but is much more resourceful.
 What most torments me
about the foolishness of my
youth, is not the crazy things
I have done...but the fact
that I can’t go back and do
them again.
To get old is to go from passion to compassion.
Many people never reach eighty because they
waste time trying to stay at forty forever.
 At twenty, desire rules, at thirty,
reason rules, and at forty, it’s time
for good sense and judgement.
Whoever is not beautiful at twenty,
strong at thirty, rich at forty, nor
wise at fifty, will never be beautiful
or strong or rich or wise.
When we pass sixty, there are fewer
things that we think are absurd.
Young people think the old are ridiculous.
The old know that the young are ridiculous.
A mature person goes back to find the
serenity once enjoyed as a child.
Nothing passes by as
quickly as the years.
 When I was young I was told
“You’ll see when you’re fifty”.
I’ve passed fifty but I don’t see
anything .
In the eyes of youth
there burns a flame.
In the eyes of the old
there shines a light.
The initiative of youth and the experience
of the older each have equal value.
There is a small child inside each one of us.
Each age calls for its own
appropriate behaviour.
 Young people travel in groups, adults
travel in pairs, and old people walk alone.
Happy the one who was young as a youth,
and happy the one who is wise in old age.
We all want to grow old, and we all want to
deny we have arrived there.
 WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE PASSING
YEARS - HOW TO LIVE THEM, AND NOT JUST TO
ACCUMULATE THEM. TRY HARDER TO DO JUST THAT.
Musica: Roger Williams