Do You Feel Old?

[Needssome]

If a 20-year-old would stop and think about how much they have learned in the last 10 years of their life. Then stop and realize that the forty-year-old has learned JUST AS MUCH in the last ten years of his/her life (and every ten year period prior to that).

Age does not stop the learning process. In fact, it gives a person a greater basis for processing the information that is learned.

Okay....I have one little disagreement with that statement there. While it is true that people never stop learning (thank goodness!), I would say that between the ages of 10 to 20 a person learns more than they do between 30 to 40. In between the age of 0 to 10, even more. I would say in the 2 years since I turned 20 (spent in university nonetheless) I haven't learned nearly as much I did when I was younger. But I digress. While I do agree that a lot of young people think they know everything at the same time I hate it when people assume because I'm young I don't know anything or conversely assume I should know everything about computers/technology. Frankly, some young people know more than those older than them and most older people know more than those younger than them.

Oh and Eagle.....your name is Evan? Cool! That's my dog's name.

 

[Texan]

Okay....I have one little disagreement with that statement there. While it is true that people never stop learning (thank goodness!), I would say that between the ages of 10 to 20 a person learns more than they do between 30 to 40. In between the age of 0 to 10, even more. I would say in the 2 years since I turned 20 (spent in university nonetheless) I haven't learned nearly as much I did when I was younger. But I digress. While I do agree that a lot of young people think they know everything at the same time I hate it when people assume because I'm young I don't know anything or conversely assume I should know everything about computers/technology. Frankly, some young people know more than those older than them and most older people know more than those younger than them.

Oh and Eagle.....your name is Evan? Cool! That's my dog's name.

Of course you think you learned more during the years between the ages of 10 and 20...... that's because you're barely over 20!

Your premise is that you learn more the younger you are. That is only true, relative to how friggin little you knew to start with.

I have four sons, and three of them are between 22 and 18. I am very aware of the distorted perspective that comes naturally with youth. It is normal, and you won't see the error of that perspective until you can look BACK at as much of life as you have to look FORWARD to.

 

[Needssome]

Of course you think you learned more during the years between the ages of 10 and 20...... that's because you're barely over 20!

Okay.....I know I'm young....but my whole point was that in developmental and learning terms, you learn a great deal more in your first few years of life than you do as you get older. I'm not talking subjectively, I'm talking objectively from reading delevopmental texts and such. And yes, it has to do with how little you knew to begin with but I'm just saying that you learn a lot more. I may be young, but I'm not stupid. As the saying goes, the more I learn, the less I know. And I know I'm barely over 20, I just don't feel I've learned a great deal more over the past couple of years. Trust me, I've forgotten everything I read. I'm screwed on the GRE.....But seriously, the majority of who you are is formed in the first few years of your life. That's all I'm saying. I wasn't trying to offend you - I was merely commenting on the fact that the span between 10 and 20 is not necessarily the same as the span between 30 and 40. It doesn't make the knowledge you gain worth any less, it's just a fact of life.

 

[Laurel]

List aside...does anyone here REALLY feel old? I mean, do you feel your age? I sure don't feel 30. I still feel like I did at 15, at 21, at 25... I'm smarter now, and wiser, and have more experience, but I don't FEEL like a 30-year-old.

I asked my 90+-year-old neighbor if she felt her age. She said, "Nope."

 

[Texan]

I'm 47.... but I don't feel a day over 46.

 

[kotori]

Me too

List aside...does anyone here REALLY feel old? I mean, do you feel your age? I sure don't feel 30. I still feel like I did at 15, at 21, at 25... I'm smarter now, and wiser, and have more experience, but I don't FEEL like a 30-year-old.

I asked my 90+-year-old neighbor if she felt her age. She said, "Nope."

When I think of myself as a living entity (I don't know how to phrase it, but anyway), the person I think about is the same person I was or was becoming at about 17 or 18. I remember things from 25 years ago like they just happened, and I'm amazed when I consider how many years ago a thing was. I have lots of the same interests now as I did then (including college coeds--hehe).

I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Bob Dylan--"My Back Pages"

And, Laurel, my wife asked her grandmother the same thing on her 99th Birthday, and got the same answer.

 

[Willing and Unsure]

what's really sad is that i'm going to be 21 this november (i cant wait), but i have heard of all the things on this list.. and i still use my 13 channel television set that isnt even cable ready (i've had it since i was 4) every year when i go back to school. Not to mention that the only time I've ever had cable is when i'm away at school. The thing doesnt have a remote but still works just as good as the day i got it.

we didnt always have an answering machine in my house, pac man was awesome when we played it on N'Television (sp?). Reagan was president for 7 years of my life. I remember when he got shot, just like I remember when the space shuttle blew up. We were watching the liftoff in school when it blew up. And I loved listening to my dad's records. I even got mad at him when he put the record player in the attic. My cousin had a Beta VCR for the longest time. We used to watch movies in her room whenever I stayed over there for a night. I remember when the Help me I've Fallen and Cant get up commercial came out. I wanna say I was in 2nd grade then. I also remember cloth diapers since we had them for my nephew.

and Mork from Ork was awesome. I loved watching that show whenever I could.

oh gosh.. there are so many more things on there and I'm only two years older than the people born in 1983. I guess that's what i get for having parents that believed we could live with what we had and didnt need the most high tech stuff.