Which is precisely the reason I see it as something beautiful. When I look upon you, and I hear you speak thusly, I must find myself consumed with nostalgia. To remember my youth, and youthful ideas, it is a wonderful feeling. I very nearly feel I could become that young man again. However, my mind is old, my body was old, even with my appearance the way it is, it can be no more than reminiscence. I never enjoyed youth so much as I do now. However, in youth I forgot to ever look back, and so rarely did I look forward. At each point in life, we realise a new understanding of ourselves. As much as old men look back on their youths with heavy sighs of longing, to remain in one state forever would erase all novelty. All the vibrancy would fade, in time, new experiences would not satisfy. Moreover, one's brain is not fully developed until into adulthood, to cut that development short would mean to lose out on many possibilities. I could not have lead as fruitful a career, had I remained young. Perhaps I could not even have graduated. A person's value cannot be measured, for it is made up of so very many factors, most of which are entirely intangible. But surely if beauty is one, then the mind is as well. If youth is a factor, then too is legacy, what one has chosen to do with one's life, how it has improved the world. Nothing is of importance without its opposite.