There Are Age Groups in Which the Accumulation…

It is curious to note that there are age groups in which the accumulation of experience very often leads to similar decisive movements. Adulthood is preceded by a decision that corroborates or definitively breaks with the aspirations of adolescence; middle age reinforces this decision or, in cases where it has been postponed, violently oppresses due to the cowardice of postponement; old age arrives with the unique possibility of synthesis or, at the very least, with the last possibility of affirmation along untrodden paths. And it is repeatedly noted that these frameworks, supported by similar classes of experience, produce results that are also similar in content, although individualized depending on the routes taken. The age factor is therefore fundamental and extremely instructive in analyzing man.