You will acquire a spouse who will both share your burden and add yet more responsibilities to your life. Eventually you will find yourself a parent and discover the most crushing responsibility of all-your own childhood will finally end with the beginning of another. That knowledge is what the trap is made of. There is a way out of the trap, he said, and everyone has a defense against it. The ultimate defense against growing old is your dream.
Nothing is as real as a dream.
The world can change around you, but the dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Your spouse and children need not get in its way.