plato and oldness

i miss my old people. and i'm supposed to be reading Plato's The Republic but it's about old people, and it's making me want mine back. also -- i have questions about my generation, are we, as a group more depressed than the generation before us? before them? how about compared to Plato's time? is depression always there? how did people back then deal with it? (yes, i'm depressed)

for my birthday, i want to go to the kirksville high school football game.

i really like the aesthetics of The Republic. It's pretty. which always makes me happy. or maybe not always. but it's always better than not being pretty.