hope to age gracefully
Just so you know, we are not allowed to be cooler when we're older.
It's a fact. Unless you make some sort of monumental achievement that resonates with coming generations of youth (and this usually needs to appeal to their aesthetic sensibilities...isn't that consumerism). Old people aren't allowed to be cool. I just was sitting thinking of how one could possibly achieve this and I find it ultimately impossible. Not that one can't achieve some degree of agreeability with "the youth," but that’s the key, it's the youth that are allowed to hold the interpretation of what’s cool; and we hardly like to give out such an award to one who is not our own. So it looks like you'll have to find some other means of self-fulfillment. If you think it's money or beauty than we have another conversation to have. Some sort of legacy is closer, but I'd still take issue with that.
It's a fact. Unless you make some sort of monumental achievement that resonates with coming generations of youth (and this usually needs to appeal to their aesthetic sensibilities...isn't that consumerism). Old people aren't allowed to be cool. I just was sitting thinking of how one could possibly achieve this and I find it ultimately impossible. Not that one can't achieve some degree of agreeability with "the youth," but that’s the key, it's the youth that are allowed to hold the interpretation of what’s cool; and we hardly like to give out such an award to one who is not our own. So it looks like you'll have to find some other means of self-fulfillment. If you think it's money or beauty than we have another conversation to have. Some sort of legacy is closer, but I'd still take issue with that.