Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
At a young age I was interested in comic books which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age I don't have the patience to learn.
I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me that they would reward in more important ways like happiness.
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers and at its worst an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
I never had little brothers so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age he wanted to be an Episcopal priest because he so admired his priest a black man from someplace called Haiti.