Older Or Younger?

I always like to quote the They Might Be Giants song "Older" each time I have a birthday...and sometimes on other people's birthdays too, because it's delightfully pessimistic and dour. "You're older than you've ever been...and now you're even older." It's funny.

But I just realized while listening to Regina Spektor's "Small Town Moon" that there's a song out there that takes the exact same pessimistic idea and turns it onto its head and fills it with optimism. Not usually my thing, but it kind of resonated. She says, "Today we're younger than we're ever going to be." In other words, now is the time. It'll never be better than now. Go forth and conquer, folks.