The junior figures are a testament to your existence. Their thoughts, beliefs, and worries were once yours and without them you(the one presently here today) wouldn't exist.
Once again you have different thoughts, beliefs, and worries than they and the way you treat them and act has a consequence on your seniors standing in line. You are upon the precipice of your future; a provocatively harpooning thought when faced with the man or woman whose life is a result of your current actions.
We tend to think of life in constant, gradual change. When confronted with images of who you once were, instantaneous condescendence avails and the former self seems ignorant and young; delved in a slumber of blind joy, or blind anxiety, none of which matters now in the safety of your present state. The same applies to the self of today; someday you'll mull over a photograph and discover the growth you've attained from this moment forward.
Regardless of failings or exposed decadence there is still growth, life is perpetual, unforgiving growth unto death. At death's surge our legacy lives on for a relatively short period of time then we're disregarded. Due to this statement we should focus on how we not only treat those around us, but rather how we treat our selves, particularly those future selves.
Virtue consistently emphasizes morality on a magnanimity basis. I think morality for others should flow from how we treat our selves, presently and in the future. Neither living for the future, nor gluttony is suggestible.
Those fanatical hedonists gorging themselves presently are short-sighted, and excessively harming their future selves. Those solely plotting the future course starve their present states, and though they may establish accomplishments through austerity they leave behind a stockpiled legacy without a flourished life.
Subsist on balance. Let kindness emanate from you, as opposed to sacrificial morality. Plant seeds in your present self to let a latter bear fruit whilst maintaining homogeneity. Stray from zealous indulgence; for it spoils and minimizes appreciation. Live for the spectrum of selves within you, but most importantly, live.
