Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by j4yav on Sunday February 06, 2022 @08:48AM (#30232435)

If you’re out of novelty in the world by 35 I think that’s more on you than the world. There’s really so much out there - complexity in every direction and at every focal length. If you want to center your life around novelty-seeking you can do it until well past the point where your body will fail you. Travel and education are good ways to find new horizons, but they are everywhere around you all the time. Seriously.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by alangibson on Sunday February 06, 2022 @11:03AM (#30233728)

> If you’re out of novelty in the world by 35 I think that’s more on you than the world

It's a good thing I didn't say that then. I said you experience diminishing returns due to having already experienced similar (but not the same!) things. The more you experience, the more you recognize what you've already experienced in new experiences. This seems like a totally unavoidable consequence of living for anyone that doesn't have a long term memory disorder or an interdimensional portal gun.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by j4yav on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:21PM (#30234559)

Even getting diminishing returns on all the variety and everything in the world in your 30s to me seems crazy, but to each his or her own. I am in my 40s and don’t feel like my world is trending towards indistinguishable gray mush at all.

You don’t have to take my word for it though, there are lots of older people who still find and get by on novelty in the world, are inspired by it, and don’t feel that everything is a rehash. There are some even replying in this thread, and more you can meet in your own neighbourhood I’m sure. Let them be an inspiration that it doesn’t have to end up that way.

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