Comments on: allow your work to age with you

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:52:48 +0000

Insightful post – I’m in my mid 20’s and like many others living in New York I often forget that there’s more to this city than tall buildings and flashy lights.

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:11:04 +0000

Hi there, interesting post, strikes a chord with me esp on going with the flow

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:36:46 +0000

Very thoughtful post — but it took me a while to read it — I was too busy laughing at the cartoon — sooooooo true! Hit the proverbial nail on the head.

By: Mari

Mari — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:20:23 +0000

I'll turn 39 in February. I have a 16 year old and an 18 year old. I have days when I don't feel like I'm "this old". And I have days when people tell me I sure don't act or look old enough to have two teenagers. Then I turn around and think, "Jeeze, X happened 20 years ago?! Ouch!" I heard when I was a teenager, "Age is only important if you're a cheese." As I get older, the more inclined I am to believe it. My favorite aunt told me once, "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

By: Wes Hawk

Wes Hawk — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:02:23 +0000

The cartoon — The same thing could be said for Austin, TX (though I love it).
The blog — What if you spend your 20s staying in and reading and then discover in your 30s that you also really like being out and about?

By: Daniel K

Daniel K — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:52:29 +0000

Nearly 28 now. Staying home becomes more and more attractive. Got a load of books on my shelf, and there´s Friday nights (!) where I really prefer those to a wild party.
It´s… ok. Hurts less the next day

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:11:04 +0000

How do you not worry when you are in the middle of a lack luster career rolling up the one year experiences? I just turned 40 and feel like I am 150 and 17 at the same time.

By: Mark McGuinness

Mark McGuinness — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:14:37 +0000

‘In nineteen seventy eight
I lived in a hotel in Notting Hill Gate,
Now in nineteen ninety two,
I live in a hotel in Notting Hill Gate.‘
The Fall

By: Radha

Radha — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:28:54 +0000

37 years old and dont feel it. I have shifted to different fields every job switch and now in events so yippeee I agree

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:02:40 +0000

Reminds me of the saying that for a writer the first twenty years are experience, the rest is reporting. But, as Graham Greene said, that is probably true for all of us.
Martin

By: Brent P. Newhall

Brent P. Newhall — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:36:24 +0000

Yes! Yes! Thank you.
So important to create with what you have.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:08:58 +0000

As a 60 year old I can vouch for the fact that you are ‘old’ in numerical terms for a very long time.
However, you don’t have to be old in any other way as some poor teenager found out when I was helping them out with their computer
Main motto is Use it or Lose it!

By: Leah

Leah — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:06:58 +0000

I like this one Hugh, even if I’m just an impatient 30 year-old aspiring novelist in Chicago.
It reminds me, tangentially, of a quote that sort-of goes, “Spend six years working. Spend the seventh alone or among strangers, so your friends don’t stop you from becoming who you are.“
I think this mini-sabatical has and continues to be good for you.