Age and Experience

This meme is all the more timely for me since my optometrist recently recommended that I start wearing bifocals. Since I'm so fucking old, this meme gives me an opportunity to share the wisdom of my advanced years.

Meme originated here. Thanks, Gloriane!

7 Ways Age and Experience Have Changed Me

• I don't care as much anymore that I be universally liked, or liked at all.
• I have less frequent moments of intense rage.
• I no longer believe in God or "life" after death.
• I write more prose than poetry.
• I no longer wear my Doctor Who scarf regularly.
• Politically, I lean further to the left every year. (Sometimes, every day.)
• I am less obsessive about my overall appearance, though I am still a gorgeous specimen of the male physique.

7 Ways Age and Experience Haven't Changed Me

• I am a major procrastinator. (Hello, dissertation!)
• I don't like to throw anything away.
• I want to understand everything.
• I am more articulate in my writing than my speaking.
• I still like listening to the Beatles.
• If I ever win/steal/earn a million dollars, the first thing I will buy is a house for my mother. OK, first I will build a home theater system, then I will buy a house for my mother.
• What he said.