A Little Wrinkle In The Oldness, Relaxivity Thread

Just now I published the post I wrote a while back. I forgot to publish it when I wrote it. Meh. More proof old-ness rounds off the precise-ness.

I wrote, "I've done all that, and I'm able to do it on-call". Then I pondered it and realized that that wasn't really true.

Y'see, if you relax the standards that you're used to, you lose a little of the ability to recall it when you need it. A laissez faire approach takes the place, just a little, of the Button Down Life you used to lead.

Without guarding your Ready-For-Anything sharpness, it will dull and so will you.

So at all ages, for some personality-types, well, really for most of them, keeping the mental edge is akin to keeping your known self.

Is it as important at 65 as it was at 25, 35, 45? In a way, no. But in another way yes.

As long as you have to keep your self in the World of Work, you have to keep all those tools you developed and still require as sharp as possible.

And, driven by the fear of losing who you once were, if that seems at all important, you continue to sharpen them until you and they are no longer important to anyone.

So while you must honestly admit you are less than the person you were in youth, you must also honestly endeavor to remain as much as most of that person you were for yourself as for those who hired you to be of some value to them.