The alternative to the second stage of generativity is stagnation—a perspective that is filled with envy and resentment: “Why don’t I get much attention anymore?” “Why do these young people seem to be having so much fun?” “Why are those young people behaving so badly?” “Whatever happened to my youth? I’ll never get it back.” It is through their civic engagements that Twin Towns’ emerging sages have found a way to be generative—a gift to their community and a gift for themselves and their own psychological well-being.
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