When Past Matters More Than Present…
Synonyms for maturing in the Merriam-Webster dictionary include: development, growth, maturation, and ripening.
Logically, then, adults should be measured not by what they started out as, but what they have become.
In practice, today’s yardstick is best summed up by the reply the harried editor in Evelyn Waugh’s “Scoop” used to counter his proprietor’s madcap ideas: “Up to a point, Lord Copper.”… Read the rest