Youthful or Useful?

David Price
3 min readDec 8, 2021
From John Silvers

Should I Be Youthful or Useful?

…Baby Boomers get so caught up in trying to feel youthful that they lose sight of the fact that feeling “useful” may be more important in living a well-lived life.

Not long ago, I was talking with a business colleague who was telling me how irrelevant he felt in the workplace and life. He was contemplating what he could do to make himself look younger as if the bodily

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David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.