If you’ve ever watched an old person and a baby you might have noticed some commonalities. Some are bald and, depending on how old the person is, both the baby and the adult may wear diapers. But the quality about babies and old people that stands out to me the most is their ability to be themselves without any pretenses. The baby is this way because she doesn’t know how to be anything else. She hasn’t been tainted by societal demands, peer pressure, or the impossible Hollywood standards of beauty – she is a “tabula rasa”, a blank slate. The old person is comfortable in her skin because she has been tainted by the pressures and troubles of life and survived it all. Her life experiences allowed her to learn what the young people need to know, which is: all you can be is yourself, so just be it and stop worrying about what everyone else thinks.
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