A small aged brass hourglass with almost no sand left in the top, casting a long soft shadow on a dark blue background.

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Mitch

Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly. When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, yo

— City Slickers  ·  1991

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speech urges children to value their present choices before age makes time seem to vanish. It starts a decade-by-decade account but cuts off in the thirties, leaving later stages unknown.

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