Over the hill at 40, this certainly rings true with me. Playing Lumosity against twenty-year-old individuals has shown me that they are way more capable than myself towards acting with their impulses with a desired reaction. Being older, the time it takes me to turn my head or to act out in any way is by far slower and less engaging than that of the youth. I do not actively pursue immediate gratification and have goals that cannot be met with a trick or the use of subversive behavior. I try to rely on wisdom and experiences from my past to lead me down a path, sometimes well maintained, to avoid conflict or any opportunity for someone to guilt me into a situation to feel as they do.
It is easy for an experience to sweep me off my feet and beg the question as to what I am trying to accomplish with my meager and humble behavior. The answer lies in solid facts, that changes to better lives in simple ways will have the greatest lasting effects. I believe I have achieved some of those things and am not of the same spontaneity in spirit to let them go as fast as I would in the past. The creativity to make overall changes to my life in the effort to bring on a new endeavor, are fewer and more far between than when I was younger. This has led me to the conclusion that I must see things through with what I have created, to give them the best chance they have, even with the future of it all needing more all the time.
The world going digital has put many great and wonderful technologies aside and made them things of the past. It will be any wonder how wedding invitations will be sent in a mere five years from now. The technologies of tomorrow not requiring or meeting the specifications of the creativity that goes into things done with love. Technology it seems can only be used on large scale and demands output. Looking to create something on your own, even to copy something you have seen for sale, often leaves you with the daunting task to evaluate your time. Time can slip away if you are doing things that you enjoy, but if asked to promote them and distribute them to be manufactured quickly and cheaply, the feeling of an isolated effort often arises. There is no ‘I’ in team, and technology wants to emit itself as the team you need on your side to meet any challenge. There is an ‘I’ in individual and independent. Filling these shoes to meet your goals, I have found makes me happier and more satisfied with my work. No matter how disengaged I may appear to the overreaching media that surrounds me.