As you grow older you recognise that 'interesting people' are only truly substantial insofar as they keep the general human virtues well. Nobody can live up to their facade in perpetuity but our plain depths can be better than our superficial mystery. Don't make an idol of anyone, but emulate whatever good you find in people. Nobody is as they seem but kindness and loyalty and other virtues are perennial and surpass us all. Common goodness is precious and godly.
You mature once the human race loses its mystery to you. We can never be the fullness of our mystery as we present it, but we can be more valuable than our mystery.
Kindness, piety, justice, loyalty and other virtues are the only things that matter and they're the same in everyone who has them. Nobody has them as their own peculiar possession. The only things which make a human being truly interesting and substantial are available to us all.









