When You’re Young You Want Friends, When You’re Old You Need Enemies

There was this big discussion

About getting older

And veering--

Going, uh

More towards the Conservative side

Of things

And, uh

While I don’t want to encourage

That way of thinking--

I still think I’m pretty liberal

Pretty progressive

But I admit--

I admit to

Not being as extreme

In terms of--

In terms of my approach

To things

But, uh

I wanted to hear--

I wanted to hear out

The people who were looking at me

And saying--

Well, you’re so Conservative now

You’re one of those people

You got older

And now you’re more to the right

Of things

And, uh

I thought about that

And reflected on it

And while I still don’t want to

Give it too much attention

I do want to, uh

See if I can figure out

Why that might be true

For other people

And I think it boils down to this--

When you’re young you want friends

And when you’re old you need enemies

Now, I don’t know why that is

Or--or--Well, I do

You get older

And your life

Doesn’t pan out

The way you thought it would

And you want to blame somebody for that

And that’s, uh, that’s a lot of what Conservative thinking

Is these days

It’s just blame

It’s the Blame Game

They try to make it sound like

It’s the other side doing it

Whining and complaining

But the truth is--

Older people

And people who are politically more--

Where the overlap is, uh

Well, it’s in us needing to figure out

Where everything went wrong

And needing to look everywhere

But at ourselves

Young people

They don’t need that

And they can’t understand it

Because you have to be there

At that point in your life

To truly get

Why it happens

It can’t really--

You can try to explain it

Like I’m doing now

But it’s difficult

Because even if your life is perfect--

And too many people

It might look that way--

You’re going to have parts of it

That you’re not happy with

And you’re going to want

An answer for why that is

When I was younger

I wanted friends

I wanted so many friends

I wanted to just, uh

Be surrounded by friends

All the time

Constantly

Now I just want to be

Left alone

And, uh, that doesn’t help

With, uh, being in a sort of--

Progressive mood

I guess you would say

So, you know

Maybe that’s it

Maybe that’s why

You, uh, see that dynamic happening

But the strange thing is

Even if you buy into the dynamic

Even if you believe it, uh

It doesn’t cure it

Understanding it doesn’t--

Uh

Well, then again

I’m not sure

Anything

Would