While I do think I keep exploring new music today (37) I don't do it as much as I used to.. I think part of the reason is the novelty-factor falls the older yo

While I do think I keep exploring new music today (37) I don't do it as much as I used to.. I think part of the reason is the novelty-factor falls the older you get, because you've.. simply experienced more stuff already.. Another part, I think, has to do with development, younger people are more impressionable, new experiences hit harder, they evoke stronger feeling.. For instance, the music I discovered when I was a kid, was mostly thrash metal from the 80s, so it was not new music, but it was new to me.. A third thing I think is relevant is, that everything that happened before our formative years, seem permanent, the old world, how things had (from our perspective) always been, but everything that happens during those formative years, are new and exciting and "right", not because of the things, but because of our own experiences.. Finally, things that happen later in our lives, are new and "not the right things" just simply because we already have had our time of formation, and those are the things we experienced in that very special light of our own formation.