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By Jack Joseph Smith
Weather you make it or not
The young should see themselves at a distance
While the old should never look back
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The page contrasts youth looking at itself from a distance with old age refusing to look back.
The source spelling Weather gives the first line an accidental double sense of circumstance and endurance. The poem's compact advice turns age into a question of perspective.