Charles Dickens’ Thoughts on Aging

“As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don’t blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.”
Charles Dickens

I know that this passage comes from Dombey and Son, but how many people find themselves thinking the very same thing? It’s up to us to make sure that never happens to us. Getting out in the world and exploring should help!

*The Charles Dickens Collection (Oliver Twist / Martin Chuzzlewit / Bleak House / Hard Times / Great Expectations / Our Mutual Friend)