I am convinced that people's measured age is nothing but a role. Today even the young enjoy the dubious privilege of age. Whatever you possess possesses you in return. Everything that makes you into an owner adapts you to the order of things - makes you old. Try to stop it, and it will wear you out and age you all the more easily.
Time has to be caught on the wing, in the present - but the present has yet to be constructed.
We were born never to grow old, never to die. All we can hope for, however, is an awareness of having come too soon. And a healthy contempt for the future can at least ensure us a rich portion of life. Chapter Sixteen of The Revolution of Everyday Life, by Raoul Vaneigem. No copyright claims will be made against publishers of nonprofit editions.