Life runs in a strange cycle. At the outset you’re an infant reliant on the care of your parents. As you get slightly older you begin to explore the world under their watchful gaze: which is just as well because, with no knowledge of the world around you, you’re going to make plenty of mistakes. By your mid to late teens you’re fairly sure that you know all there is to know (the folly of which is reflected in the statistics that show the disproportionately high incidence of deaths involving young people and driving). Having got your first job you realise that you don’t know anything after all. A few years later you discover that no one else knows that much either. Freed from any anxiety about your limitations, you will briefly find yourself seeing the world and your position in it as it really is. Eventually, you reach the […]
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