If a person is doing learning right then he or she realizes there will always be much more to learn than can be learned, but will continue enjoying the questions and where they lead (including to more questions, often especially to more questions).
Here’s a curiously apropos test of age: the “No Country for Old Men” test. What did you think of just now when you saw those words?
The Coen Brothers movie?
The Cormac McCarthy Book?
or the William Butler Yeats poem Sailing to Byzantium?
It’s a trick question. If any of them came to mind, you’ve lived at the right time to experience it and you’re very fortunate indeed. I think of them all, and love them all. For the record, though, I’m in the middle in terms of my introduction to the phrase. I read the book first, well before the movie came out. But also before I knew about the Yeats poem. And also for the record, no matter how old a man I become, I will never read or see any of those three enough.
SonicFan91 over 5 years ago
His grandpa was WINDSURFING lessons. Where do you live, Chicago?
garcoa over 5 years ago
When you are older, you can come to grips with knowing you will never know everything. So just choose the important stuff.
Bilan over 5 years ago
Everything you need to know about windsurfing: Tilt it enough to get some speed, but not enough to end up airborne.
asrialfeeple over 5 years ago
Heh
jpayne4040 over 5 years ago
Oh; get it, Gramps! Experienced people should always stay physically active if they can!
sandpiper over 5 years ago
Each of us hits Caulfield’s speed bump at different times in our lives. For many of us it is much, much later.
Kroykali over 5 years ago
After this she’s taking up skydiving.
Fido (aka Felix Rex) over 5 years ago
34 more days of instruction…
b.j.hammond over 5 years ago
Bears t-shirt?
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 5 years ago
If a person is doing learning right then he or she realizes there will always be much more to learn than can be learned, but will continue enjoying the questions and where they lead (including to more questions, often especially to more questions).
Learn to live, and live to learn.
Concretionist over 5 years ago
My grandpa was an expert wind breaker. Surfing would have interested him, but I’m pretty sure he never saw an ocean except in pictures.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
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Here’s a curiously apropos test of age: the “No Country for Old Men” test. What did you think of just now when you saw those words?
The Coen Brothers movie?
The Cormac McCarthy Book?
or the William Butler Yeats poem Sailing to Byzantium?
It’s a trick question. If any of them came to mind, you’ve lived at the right time to experience it and you’re very fortunate indeed. I think of them all, and love them all. For the record, though, I’m in the middle in terms of my introduction to the phrase. I read the book first, well before the movie came out. But also before I knew about the Yeats poem. And also for the record, no matter how old a man I become, I will never read or see any of those three enough.