{"id":18,"date":"2013-05-06T23:54:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T23:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/dealing-with-age\/"},"modified":"2013-05-06T23:54:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T23:54:28","slug":"dealing-with-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/dealing-with-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re born, you do what you need to do, and then one day you wake up to discover you&#8217;re 30; &#8220;The Wednesday of Your Life&#8221;. I freaked out a bit on mine, and figured that the end was nigh. The day turned out to be <a href=\"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/veghead\/30\/\" title=\"30th Birthday Pics\">really pretty enjoyable on reflection<\/a>, and I was given a valuable gift by an older friend; he said &#8220;your 30&#8217;s are like your 20&#8217;s, but you just don&#8217;t give as much of a fuck&#8221;. The same advice can, and should, be given to everyone at every age.<br \/>\nSo despite recently turning 42, I&#8217;m no longer worried &#8211; but it&#8217;s interesting to note the things that <i>have<\/i> changed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Going out, getting pissed and &#8220;having a good time&#8221; now seems more like a threat than a good idea. Spending a weekend hacking, reading, watching films and spending time with my wife and the parrots is far more enjoyable on its own merit. OK red wine is currently a key part of the equation but I&#8217;m working on that.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m older than the majority of my peers at work. Oddly, it can be  quite comforting: with age comes experience, and I enjoy the occasional feeling of being sure that I know what I&#8217;m talking about. It&#8217;s still very infrequent, but when it happens it&#8217;s very satisfying.<\/li>\n<li>I used to think I was the same age as teens and people in their twenties. Now &#8220;people my age&#8221; ranges from 25 to 65. Anyone younger is a child. Anyone older is &#8220;a bit older&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Worrying about being uncool is a thing of the past. It was always a bogus ideal, but now I relish it. There&#8217;s a lot to waffle about here, but not now.<\/li>\n<li>A disposable income means that educational toys can be purchased without sacrifice or guilt to help keep my brain working, my childish spirit satisfied, and my skill-set increasing.<\/li>\n<li>The Internet: it&#8217;s impossible for anyone with any vestige of curiosity to become bored now. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re born, you do what you need to do, and then one day you wake up to discover you&#8217;re 30; &#8220;The Wednesday of Your Life&#8221;. I freaked out a bit on mine, and figured that the end was nigh. The day turned out to be really pretty enjoyable on reflection, and I was given a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}