What's something that fascinates your older self that your younger self had no interest in?
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September 13th, 2015
For me, it’s babies.
When I was thin-faced, babies used to stare at me, to the point I was self-conscious. I couldn’t get a reaction.
My face has filled out, and there doesn’t seem to be a baby I can’t get a grin out of.
What new interests or ideas has age given you?
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Watching Gold smelting videos.
Scenic beauty. Mountains, oceans, green countryside. When I was younger none of it moved me much. Now, my breath is literally taken away. The colors and patterns in nature are so incredible. I used to take it for granted.
As I get older I become more interested in self-teaching. I become more active in the learning process and learn anything I find helpful. I find myself spending more time reading non-fiction and learn outside class. My younger self would just shake her head if I told her to do the same. She onle wanted to play all day and learn when she was force to.
God, the economy, law, physics, covert ops, Web design, there were a few more, but they escape me right now.
@ibstubro, I feel the same way about young children as you do about babies. When I was younger I was kind of afraid of kids, but now I love smiling at and talking to them at any opportunity.
Jazz
Cooking
Religion
Being in the moment
I have the same older past time as @SQUEEKY2 . When I was younger, I simply wouldn’t waste an entire day for golf, way too many other things to do. All those other things have died away and golf has taken over. Who woulda guessed?
I had no idea I would be working with babies and loving it. If someone had told my younger self, I never would have believed them. Also, I didn’t get the whole ‘looking at the night sky’ and interest in space until I moved from the Northern hemisphere to the Southern at 19. I was always into science, but I never really let my geek show because I thought it was too alienating when I was younger. Obviously, that’s changed.
Growing all our vegetables.
Talking to strangers.
Changing seasons. When I was younger it could be summer all year as far as I was concerned.
@Judi I’m just the opposite. I didn’t understand how fabulous it is to be in hot to warmish weather all year. It didn’t register with me when I was younger that people live in the places I like to vacation all year long.
When I was younger it was give me snow or give me snow. We lived in Florida for a time. Before that we’d lived in Washington State. We moved to Kansas when I was 8. That first winter it “snowed.” It was just a dusting, but I crouched down and traced a snowman in the snow. I was so happy to see it again.
I’ve also developed a strong interest in The Civil War and slaves in the US.
I’m all over local history. I love reading the ‘reminisce’ booklets, even if they’re not from my locality. Many focus on the Depression and WW ll.
I just read one titled “15 Cents Worth of Minced Ham.” or similar. The gist of the title story was that he was sent to the local grocery with a quarter to buy minced ham and bread totaling 25ยข, but state sales tax had been implemented, so the shopkeeper shaved off a penny’s worth of ‘meat’.
Sorry. Showing my older self. Rambling.
@ibstubro I’ve always had an interest in the Civil War and the history of slavery too. Just watched a great little documentary on the original slaves brought over to the colonies in the early 1600’s. Originally there were white as well as African American indentured servants and both could work their way to freedom by way of joining the militias to fight the native amricans or other europeans, and those that learned the native dialogues were valuable as treaty makers etc.or other means. It was not uncommon to have wealthy black land owners that actually kept white servants way back when, before the tables turned again.
Miles Davis’s music. I’m still not a big jazz fan, but I heard his album Kind of Blue in my late twenties, after having heard it many times before and not caring about it at all, but one day a co-worker was playing it and I finally realized how great it was.
I hear bits and snippets of music on NPR that I think might interest me, @Kardamom, but I seldom retain enough information to find it again.
@ibstubro If you happen to have an iphone with Siri, and you are listening to a song on the radio, if you ask Siri what song it is, she can tell you, because they have codes embedded in the digital radio signal that the phone can read.
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