Quote:Here's the deal.  The answer is yes, you do change mentally as you get older but your awareness of that change is so gradual and muted that you can talk yourself into believing you feel exactly the same.  Mostly this manifests itself as younger people appearing to always be rushing around in an awful dag-nabbed hurry and afternoon naps holding a lot more appeal than they did just a few years ago.  Also, while you'll generally continue to be open to new experiences (new music, new movies, Jaguars winning seasons, etc.) you'll generally feel that having the volume of life on 6 or 7 is just fine (as opposed to having to turn it up to 10 all the time).  Happy aging!

 

I have a grandmother still alive at the age of 104.  I still get amazed when I talk to her about what she's seen in her lifetime.  From being alive during major world wars, the development of television and radio, telephones.  The advancements made in automobiles, seeing a man land on the moon, the invention of color television.  We then went to cable television then satellite television, computers, the internet and now "smart phones".  What she has seen and experienced during her lifetime blows me away, especially since I've only been alive for a very short period of that time frame.

 

I see so many people say something to the effect that "old people annoy them", but understand one thing.  Those "old people" were part of the generation that makes today's world possible.  Those "old people" built the world that we live in today.  I would bet that a CS graduate today couldn't program an old computer from back in the day when that technology was "cutting edge".

 

It's quite possible that those "old people" lived and possibly even were a part of WWII or other wars.  Some people need to get it through their thick skulls that people before us sacrificed and made a huge commitment for us.  It's because of the "old people" that we live as we do today and have the technology that we enjoy.

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