As young people we do not worry about death because for us death is a matter for the old rather than the young. The fact that when a young person dies, it hits people harder than if an older person died, because of the way we perceive the situation. Young people are supposed to live while old people are supposed to die, not young people. Since we are young, we worry about love, friendship and social status. Then, as we age, our perspective shifts to a more valuable one. We begin to live each day by the minute rather than by the hour and begin to appreciate the little things in life because we begin to realize that at any moment everything can be taken away from us. As lines thirty-one to thirty-two explain: “To the lords and ladies of Byzantium, of what is past, or fleeting, or to come. » These lines explain that we don't know when this will happen. Death can take it away, and without death there would be things in life that would be so valuable, but we would fail to recognize it.