What is the human contradiction?

CONTRADICTION
 
Let me be old,
but keep me young.
Let me be busy, and
yet always still.
 
Let me reach out
but stay within.
Let me complete, and
yet always begin.

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​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1. Are you old or young?
2. Are you busy or still? 

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Day 473 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

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