Well, one of the great surprises of this life to me is that one's body ages at a faster rate, it seems than one's mind. Back when I was sure that I knew everything, because after all I was in college and they only let in people that know everything, I can remember thinking that older people, certainly people my age now, must "think older". After all there are all of those graphs of peak performance in peotry, chess, number of brain cells, etc that show the late twenties as the top of the bell curve. That once I got to this age that I would certainly be a slow witted, bond coupon clipper sitting on a park bench.
But, while I find a great separation in my world view from childhood and adolescence, it seems that I don't really feel that differently about the world or my perception of it, than when I was about 20. About the only change I have experienced was that about the time of my college graduation, I came to understand how little I really did know. And of course the intervening years have done very little to change that condition. Rather than becoming "them", they were "me" all along. |
