THE BEST AGE OF LIFE
Someday, in a train station two stranger people met because they sat in the same bench.
Arthur: Excuse me young, that's yours? (The old man show to the young girl a wallet).
Rachel: Oh yes ! Thank you very much, sir. (Rachel puts the wallet into her pocket).
Arthur: Oh, you're welcome. You are very polite, a difficult skin to find in young people. I'm Arhtur, and I'm waiting for a train to go to Bristol. What's your name?
Rachel: Thank you very much Arthur. My name is Rachel and I'm going to Newcastle. I'm studying at the high school and I'm going to visit my sister, who is studying Archaeology at the university.
Arthur: Oh! And your parents let you travel alone?
Rachel: Yes, I'm really responsible, but I have to notice to my mother everything.
Arhtur: Oh that's a good mother, you have to take care of her.
Rachel: Oh I do, I do. Some of my classmates want to be 18 years old to go to university and leave their homes and beginning a new stage of live, but I don't be in a hurry.
Arthur: You are right, you are really young, to be in hurry, you still have all the life to live, and surely you will live unforgiveble experiences. Believe in me, I know what I'm talking about.
Rachel: Jaja. I believe, I believe. Now I'm 16, and I'm enjoying this stage of my live, because if I just want to be older, when I really be older I will want to be youger, and I want to enjoy every day of my life.
Arthur: When you will be 68 as me, for sure you don't want to be 16.
Rachel: No?? (Expresses confused). Why?
Arthur: Because every day you learn something, and the next day you are a little bit more smart. So, now I know that I'm more smart than you, because I'm older! And that's the reason.
Rachel: Yes, that's true, and I think you are right.
(Suddenly arrived a train. Both heard a voice: train direction Bristol, platform 2. Arthur got up).
Arthur: that's my train. Thank you very much for your conversation.
Rachel: Thanks too, sir. Have a nice trip!
Arthur: Thank you. Be careful young.
(And Arthur took the train to Bristol. This was the first time and the last one these two people talk in their life).
(Nowadays Rachel is 68 and she still remembering the conversation she had with sir Arthur and she is enjoying her new stage of her life).