Everyone was always becoming someone else. Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who’s about to turn seventeen feel old?

Anonymous
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Everything that we do in life, brings us closer to our end. We go from being a child to a teenager, then a young adult and then eventually into an adult. In the end, that will be our last life. In this quote, the speaker is reminiscing about his teen years when he was young and trying to find out who he was going to be in his next life.

As he walked through his teenage years, he was becoming someone younger and becoming someone older at the same time. That's when he felt old.

Source: Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe

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