{"id":10195,"date":"2015-02-25T10:55:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T05:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=10195"},"modified":"2021-01-02T11:08:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T05:38:49","slug":"an-age-when-age-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2015\/02\/25\/an-age-when-age-doesnt-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"An age when age doesn’t matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

While discussing a ’40 under 40′ list, I joked the other day to a colleague that my only chance of getting\u00a0into one now was to reduce my weight by about 15 kg in a few years! It made me think of\u00a0a strange yardstick I have employed in\u00a0valuing others’ achievements – their age. To elaborate, if I came across a person who had attained a measure of success, I would be mollified if I figured that the person was at least as old as I was. If they were younger, mollified would be replaced by mortified. How dare they achieve something earlier in life?! Very strange, I know. I have quite a few theories on it – upbringing, a ‘paying your dues’ perspective, the way I have progressed in my career and what I’ve had to do, or perhaps just the result of\u00a0being brought up in an age when folks worked hard all their life to attain things that\u00a0we might consider a basic need now.<\/p>\n

I gained freedom from it (or so I think) quite recently. The irony was that this realisation dawned \u00a0just after a meeting with someone whom I would say has been quite successful in his profession. As I made\u00a0my way back home in a cab, I passed quite a few bus stops. It was late evening, and people were waiting for a bus to take them home. \u00a0Young people, middle aged people, and even a few old people, their faces echoing their toils. Perhaps they had a long bus ride ahead of them, perhaps they would have to stand all the way, perhaps they would have to get down midway and catch another bus. This was their life everyday, the cards they were dealt. Some might be unhappy, some would have made their peace, and some might even be happy. Their lot in life, or a bus they missed at some point in their life. Even as I had many, many things to be thankful for. So, what business did I have grudging someone because they worked hard and\/or were lucky enough to make a mark early in life?<\/p>\n

In addition to the reasons I stated about my age yardstick,\u00a0perhaps there is also an underlying realisation that time is running out – to find a purpose, to know why I am here, now. A related thought occurred to me a few days ago. As we enter the era of augmented humanity<\/a>, and lifespans begin to increase manifold, time would increasingly become an unlimited commodity. Would I\/someone who thought like me about time behave differently then? Live a life never shadowed by an age – life stage – achievement template? Or will this how\u00a0life will always be?<\/p>\n

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While discussing a ’40 under 40′ list, I joked the other day to a colleague that my only chance of getting\u00a0into one now was to reduce my weight by about 15 kg in a few years! It made me think of\u00a0a strange yardstick I have employed in\u00a0valuing others’ achievements – their age. To elaborate, if […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479,98,6026,6053],"tags":[4759,4760,2317,445],"class_list":["post-10195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughtstream","category-future","category-ideas-future","category-purpose","tag-age","tag-augmented-humanity","tag-success","tag-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10195"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15060,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions\/15060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}