I'm 58. Which is old. Way too old, in my opinion. I'd happily be 22 for the rest of a long unnatural life. And I'm immature enough to pull that off.
I'm old enough to be divorced after a marriage longer than many will have. I have kids who are (legally) grown. I know from personal experience a lot of things that my younger acquaintances know only from what I would call "books". Meanwhile, I'm so old that I've lost track of really hip popular music in a way that caused me to scoff at old farts when I was a young man.
(Beloit College does this "Mindset" thing every year to remind its academics what incoming freshmen have never experienced and know (if at all) from "books". Here, randomly, is what freshmen hadn't experienced in 2010.)
As stodgy as I seem here, my 20-something kids teach me things all the time, and among my greatest fears is that I'm falling further and further behind in what the smartest cool kids know today. Happily, mine are now bound to get stodgier themselves at some point (I hope not), and maybe we'll reach an equilibrium somewhere down the road.
Anyway, how old are you, and what do you think about that (if anything)?
I'm old enough to be divorced after a marriage longer than many will have. I have kids who are (legally) grown. I know from personal experience a lot of things that my younger acquaintances know only from what I would call "books". Meanwhile, I'm so old that I've lost track of really hip popular music in a way that caused me to scoff at old farts when I was a young man.
(Beloit College does this "Mindset" thing every year to remind its academics what incoming freshmen have never experienced and know (if at all) from "books". Here, randomly, is what freshmen hadn't experienced in 2010.)
As stodgy as I seem here, my 20-something kids teach me things all the time, and among my greatest fears is that I'm falling further and further behind in what the smartest cool kids know today. Happily, mine are now bound to get stodgier themselves at some point (I hope not), and maybe we'll reach an equilibrium somewhere down the road.
Anyway, how old are you, and what do you think about that (if anything)?