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[quote=Anonymous]I’m in my early 40s, and I think this mindset of the world feeling unrecognizable is very typical, and is usually what people mean when they say someone is “old”, that is, they are refusing to accept the world has changed.

The world is always changing, there is always political and environmental change, there is regular economic turbulence — none of this is new. When we are young, I think we embrace it more because change can be exciting and bring along a lot of opportunity. As we get older, we have more (material stuff and status) and change can be scary because we have more to lose. Then we start feeling like the good old days were better, but they weren’t, we just had a different mindset.

I don’t feel like the world has left me behind, but I do realize that I am not as open to embracing new things as I was when younger. I was an early adopter if email and Facebook, but now not excited about Twitter or Snapchat. But it’s a choice I am making, I don’t blame it on a changing world. [/quote]

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