23 July

You’re born old, and get younger every day you’re alive. How does that work? You are the accumulated inheritance of all of your ancestors, going back billions of years. Babies start with this ancient inheritance, you’re born ancient. The social things you then learn, like language and customs, are also ancient. Your ’life’ is pushing back against this ancient legacy, creating tiny new deviations from it. Your life creates new things, it acts against time, the more you live the younger you get, by going against this ancient legacy.