Dr. David Sinclair
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And it goes like this.
When I was one, I had just begun.
When I was two, I was nearly new.
When I was three, I was hardly me.
When I was four, I was not much more.
When I was five, I was just alive.
But now I am six.
I'm as clever as clever.
So I think I'll be six now, forever and ever.
I'm getting chills reading this again and hearing his poem again because the impact on me was the following, that subconsciously my grandmother was saying, you don't want to grow up.
Adults can be evil.
She grew up after World War II.
There was horrendous impact on her and her family in Hungary.
And she thought that a child is innocent and people shouldn't grow up.
But what actually happened was I realised...
Why do people grow old?
That's a terrible thing to happen.
And so I've spent my life trying to figure out why do we get old?
Why do we grow up?
Why do we get frail?