![]() Satisfaction, I told my daughter, is the greatest paradox of human life. No matter what we achieve, see, acquire, or do, it seems to slip from our grasp. 2 on Rolling Stone magazine’s original list of the “ 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”-has a lot to do with a deep truth it speaks.Īs we wind our way through life, I explained, satisfaction-the joy from fulfillment of our wishes or expectations-is evanescent. To my mind, the longevity of that particular song-No. It wasn’t just the music, or even the performance, I assured her. “Do people your age actually like this?” I took umbrage, but had to admit it was a legitimate question. ![]() An audience of tens of thousands of what looked to be mostly Baby Boomers and Gen Xers sang along rapturously. ![]() What I found instead was the septuagenarian rock star Mick Jagger, in a fairly recent concert, croaking out the Rolling Stones’ megahit “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”-a song that debuted on the charts when I was a year old-for probably the millionth time. ![]() I came over to her laptop, not being above watching someone making an idiot of himself for 15 seconds of social-media fame. ![]() Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. ![]()
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