Do You Even Realize What Is Out There?

The youthful type of character:

Their lives are mainly spent not in memory but in expectation; for expectation refers to the future, memory to the past, and youth has a long future before it and a short past behind it: on the first day of one's life one has nothing at all to remember, and can only look forward.

(c) Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book II, Chapter 12