Monday, April 23, 2018

Trying to be young as Age catches up...

There are several measures that a person would take to "feel young"- young enough to be energetic and functional. One of these would be a pointer to person being seen to be younger than he actually is, arranged almost in the increasing order of being doable: 1. Keeping company of people at lest a decade or two younger 2. Being adventurous in travel- ie choosing destinations that would rather by chosen by younger guys 3. Being active in sports esp. if they are adventurous sports 4. Being in a learning mode by either trying to learn something new like picking up a new hobby or leaning a new subject 5. Trying out experiments either in known areas of expertise or newer ones. 6. Trying Entrepreneurship. I hope everyone would more less agree with the ascending order of difficulty with regards to challenges posed by the goal of staying young. The first two are doable if only there is a guarantee of financial resources. The third assumes a reasonably good health. Most 'sport'for the aged is at most confined to brisk walking. A few may hazard playing a game of Badminton. By adventurous sport I mean something like Go-karting at the very least. Having to do with learning a new subject would perhaps pose the toughest challenge as grasping of new ideas will more or less be blocked by old experience. The general apathy to learning that sets in with age which goes with the reasoning what is in it for me anyway. No one would dispute the last ie trying one's hand at entrepreneurship. Even a simple thing like setting up a photocopying facility that also sells standard stationery, a sure shot seller even in moderately populated area, and having an Internet facility in addition might still challenge an aged person's quickness of response. Given this imagine some one embarking on a establishing a new career almost by working on a New but exciting technology of Embedded Systems. The frequent hesitant stops and postponements to begin are one too many. This learning involves exercising ne's faculties perhaps too the extreme, but if successful and that too remarkably, then it would not be an exaggeration to say that the Age is straight away halved! With prayers for success....