Running Away

Our own past is a foreign country in which we once felt at home

As I grow older, I hope to truly grow, to expand my horizons through reading and art and, above all, conversation. But the most natural way we expand our horizons is simply by growing older. A boy knows what it is like to be a boy, and remembers being a younger boy, while a man remembers both and knows what it is like to be a man.

Yet I find that often e…