As iron-thewed youngsters with hot blood coursing through our veins, our exuberance leaves no room for doubts. Youth is followed by our wiser middle years in which we understand something of our fate. In our last years, we follow our desires, but do not lose ourselves within them. Such later years punctuate the end of life's course with a perfectly rounded full stop.
這不也就是孔子自述的人生境界：從血氣方剛的少年，過度到充滿不惑、知天命的智慧中年，最後則以從心所欲、不逾矩的自由自在，為人生劃上圓滿的句點？