Even though you were forced to grow up before your time, think how well you could handle a crisis now! Sometimes I think that the younger folks don't how to manage when life gets them by the tail, and my job entailed dealing with people in crisis. (Very recently, someone young asked me what the women of yesteryear did with their time when they didn't have so many meetings to attend? I replied, "You mean after the cows were milked, the chickens fed, the wool spun, the gardens tended, the children birthed on the table and then tended, the clothing all made, the water packed to the wash, the wash hung out, brought in and ironed, and everything made from scratch for a meal which they actually sat down and ate three times a day, all with no electricity or other mechanical help?" She was close to me or I wouldn't have been so blunt!) Think of it this way: Now you can enjoy the freedom of youth with a lot more knowledge than you would have had then.
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