From 'ephron' 7 Comments

Funny, after a point, you think you've seen it all, which is a pity. Sure, you might have seen lots. Things may become versions of themselves. But one should never think there's nothing new. First, it embarrasses what I call a sense of 'receptivity' and makes getting up in the morning a chore. If you believe nothing's new, you shut your mind to anything that may be so- and so doing, you officially enter the ranks of the senescent. If youth has any use, it derives from its openness to novelty- to fresh ways of thinking.

Second, it's just not true. There's always something new to discover, even if you live a hundred years. You just have to make yourself available. Core components of the human ego may seem the same, everywhere. But there are things you simply don't know. These, after a while, account for much of lifes' pleasure.
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