It is probably Oscar Wilde who said it.  “Youth is wasted on the young.”

He was clever and witty and literate and gay in the days when being gay could land you in prison. (In his case, it did.)

Youth comes along with a feeling of being invulnerable. This is a false feeling, for the average human life expectancy gives a person plenty enough years to feel in her or his body the consequences of the decisions made when he or she was young. Read more on You Don’t Want To See Your Brain On Drugs…