What are yours? I started thinking about mine the other day after having lunch in the cafeteria of the dorm where I lived in college. The place is right down the street from my office. When I'm hit with nostalgia for my old college days, I sneak in line with college kids for some good old dorm food (It's one of the places on campus where faculty and staff also eat, so don't get any ideas that I'm being pervy). But as I was eating lunch and enjoying the same great view of campus out the same windows I looked out more than 40 years ago on a daily basis, I started thinking about how much I have and have not changed over the decades.
Certainly, appearance wise. Far less hair, just a bit over my ideal BMI instead of far under it. Better dressed! Once divorced, twice married. Plenty of career experience. Plenty of experiences, period.
But so many of my interests are the same. I'm still a huge music fan and avid record collector. I still like to read 20th century literary fiction (sometimes the same books over and over). I'm still "into" art and photography. And I still love the experience of reading comic books.
In fact, one day at this dorm cafeteria I brought along for my lunchtime reading material an old copy of Neal Adams' collected work on the Marvel X-Men series. The Japanese students at the table pointed at the book and then start smirking and giggling. Maybe I made for an incongruous image: old white-haired dude in repp tie, baggy sport coat, cuffed pants, and moc bluchers reading something a kid in junior high school would read. Boy, did I feel silly. And then I thought, why should I feel silly? I like it!
And then my second thought: Maybe I haven't evolved enough? Why haven't my interests really changed since I was 18?
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Certainly, appearance wise. Far less hair, just a bit over my ideal BMI instead of far under it. Better dressed! Once divorced, twice married. Plenty of career experience. Plenty of experiences, period.
But so many of my interests are the same. I'm still a huge music fan and avid record collector. I still like to read 20th century literary fiction (sometimes the same books over and over). I'm still "into" art and photography. And I still love the experience of reading comic books.
In fact, one day at this dorm cafeteria I brought along for my lunchtime reading material an old copy of Neal Adams' collected work on the Marvel X-Men series. The Japanese students at the table pointed at the book and then start smirking and giggling. Maybe I made for an incongruous image: old white-haired dude in repp tie, baggy sport coat, cuffed pants, and moc bluchers reading something a kid in junior high school would read. Boy, did I feel silly. And then I thought, why should I feel silly? I like it!
And then my second thought: Maybe I haven't evolved enough? Why haven't my interests really changed since I was 18?
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