> I see older people behave in certain ways and think I will never be like that. Then I realize that I will be, and that when I am like that I will not know it.

> I see older people behave in certain ways and think I will never be like that. Then I realize that I will be, and that when I am like that I will not know it. And therefore maybe I already am like that. The problem is that this isn't always true, and it's hard to know when, since there's another thing that causes all old people to do something: They all lived at the same time. There are certain ways that older people relate to food that is based not around being old, but having lived through the great depression. The same with the baby boomers, etc. We can already see that people who grew up around 9/11 and the recession will be different in certain aspects. Even hobbies, may have much less to do with being old, and more to do with carrying over hobbies from an earlier age. Think of it like 'old people names'. Those aren't old people names, they're 'teenager names' 65 years later.