Does Age Quash Our Spirit of Adventure?

innerSpaceman · 08-18-2006, 07:07 PM

Well, I will agree with some of those benchmarks ... but, for me, it's just that having newness in the same old area can itself smack of oldness. I did get less enthusiastic about new music at some point (it was more like 40) ... but I want more new visual arts now.

I have always liked both new and tried & true. But with so much life under my belt at this point, new doesn't even seem all that new unless it's also in a realm that's new.

SacTown Chronic · 08-18-2006, 07:36 PM

No declining spirit of adventure. No less disdain for order, structure, and the way things are (and have always been). Age hasn't contributed to my mellowization, but children have.

Priorities change. Anarchy can wait 'till the youngest graduates college.

Musically, I'm friskier than ever. Much credit to our fifteen year old for that. Thanks to him I'm fed a steady diet of new alternative music and such. We bond through music even though the totality of my musical tastes is too far out of the mainstream for even him, a teenager trying hard to affect an air of disinterested disdain for society and everything else.

Much like it is for iSm, age ain't nothing but an illusion for me.

08-18-2006, 07:07 PM	#1
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Well, I will agree with some of those benchmarks ... but, for me, it's just that having newness in the same old area can itself smack of oldness. I did get less enthusiastic about new music at some point (it was more like 40) ... but I want more new visual arts now. I have always liked both new and tried & true. But with so much life under my belt at this point, new doesn't even seem all that new unless it's also in a realm that's new.
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08-18-2006, 07:36 PM	#2
SacTown Chronic the myth of the dream Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,217	No declining spirit of adventure. No less disdain for order, structure, and the way things are (and have always been). Age hasn't contributed to my mellowization, but children have. Priorities change. Anarchy can wait 'till the youngest graduates college. Musically, I'm friskier than ever. Much credit to our fifteen year old for that. Thanks to him I'm fed a steady diet of new alternative music and such. We bond through music even though the totality of my musical tastes is too far out of the mainstream for even him, a teenager trying hard to affect an air of disinterested disdain for society and everything else. Much like it is for iSm, age ain't nothing but an illusion for me.
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