While waiting in a coffee line, I was overhearing a conversation between 2 elderly men. One was holding an iPhone, the other men an outdated flip-phone.
“Why don’t you get an iPhone?”
“I’m happy with that phone. Why do I need that fancy stuff? I’ll never use it.”
“I couldn’t live without mine.”
“I’m just too old to get into this.”
At one point, all brands, institutions, countries and people consider themselves old.
Think about the DMV. It feels like an old, half-dead organization that will never reform and improve.
Mubarak thought he and his country was too old to change. And the country changed without him.
The two political parties are not ready for real change. And the country might change without them.
That feeling doesn’t happen on a schedule. I see 90-year old enjoying the iPad, 80-year olds taking 6-week bus tours (I’m too old for that. Sorry.) and 40-year olds acting like retirement is around the corner.
Being old is a choice.
There’s nothing biological clock that decides when you’re old. You decide. You can run a marathon when you’re 70, learn a new language when you’re 80 and release your first book when you’re 90. It might be easier to do all that when you’re young.
That’s why it’s worth doing.
uwehook 
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