When does ageism stop and common sense begin?

[nolabear]

8. Depends on what you think is valuable, and whether you broad brush people.

Do you value quickness or thoughtfulness? Physical strength or being smart enough to find ways of doing things that equalize abilities? Idealism driven action or action from experience? Being a newcomer or having networks that go back many years? Knowing what you and those like you want or having walked miles in many shoes? Expecting to reap the benefits of what you sew for years or thinking of future generations reaping them? Thinking of the world as it has been for twenty or thirty years or for fifty or sixty?

There are benefits and deficits on both sides. If you’re smart and physically and mentally healthy and have the sense to listen and act on wise counsel I don’t think age is a problem, up to a point. I’m 62 and think I’d be fine, though I’m a different animal than when I was forty. Some better, some worse.