I'm afraid so. Is it inevitable? Do we ALL have to mentally go? I really wish this was not the case but I do not believe anyone gets spared. With age, people seem to follow this simple line of thinking that eventually leads them to crazyville:
If you are older, you have lived longer and experienced more, making you wiser. In addition, as you age, the population of the people older/wiser than you gets smaller, and the population of the younger/dumber folk gets larger. Therefore, the older you get, the wiser you become than most people on the planet. This makes you more special as the years go by, and naturally it becomes your responsibility to impose your wisdom on the young and dumb. This usually comes out in the form of ever growing cynicism. Especially when you see the whippersnappers trying something new and hip. That really gets you going, because you already know it will never work.
You remain at this level of crazy until you reach some critical age when you get a brief moment to choose: Do you continue on your waaaay fun crazy path causing havoc in the lives of the young until insanity is complete, or do you quit cold turkey and become one of those rare sprung-out-of-nowhere quiet/cute old people?
Most choose crazy; I know I will.
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