#never too old
Never Too Old,
Back in 2012, I spent a Sunday morning in a park in Ebisu. After spending time watching families and children play, I noticed an older fellow pretending to be an airplane come through the park. I can’t say I really learned anything from that, but for some reason it made quite an impression on me that day. Still does. Not sure why.
Ten years ago today, but a Sunday rather than Saturday. Where is he now, I wonder.
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So very rarely do i post but this is making me crazy!
My Mom Loves all things fantasy and S-Fi and and thinks it is so totally awesome that I am a Dungeon Master.
I have asked her multiple time if she wanted to play but she always comes up with some excuse to not play but will sit nearby fascinated by the game.
She finally admitted to me today that she thinks that at 57 she is “Too Old” to play even though she loves it.
PLEASE RE-BLOG THIS AS MANY TIME AS POSSIBLE TO HELP ME PROVE TO HER THAT SHE IS ALLOWED TO PLAY NO MATTER HER AGE!!!
Never too old. When I am a withered old geek I will DM in the nursing home!
Never too old. J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when he published LOTR. Imagination does not go away with age. If anything she has an advantage of many many more books and comics up her sleve <3
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Also OP, probably tell her about Shirley Curry, a.k.a:
Skyrim Grandma
who, at the tender age of 83 (that’s right: eighty-three years old!) is not only a good Skyrim player, but also has at least 700 thousand fans (whom she calls “grandkids”), and is now being immortalized through (1) a Skyrim mod, and (2) The Elder Scrolls 6.
So yeah. No such thing as “too old” to play fantasy games, be it tabletop ones or PC ones.
At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA.
At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.
At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer.
At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.
At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.
At age 28, Wayne Coyne (from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook.
At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.
At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.
At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs.
Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51.
Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40.
Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40.
Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career to pursue acting at age 42.
Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first movie role until he was 46.
Morgan Freeman landed his first MAJOR movie role at age 52.
Kathryn Bigelow only reached international success when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57.
Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76.
Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78.
Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow.
Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it.
Never tell yourself you missed your chance.
Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough.
You can do it. Whatever it is.
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(original post by Drew Forrester)
I post this because I remember thinking that turning 30 was the end of my life.
At 32 I went back to school, did a second BA, two MAs, and finished the PhD at 47. I’ll be 48 this year, I have pink hair, still get tattoos, play video games, teach at a university, have traveled around the world (and still travelling), and new goal is to publish first novel by 50. :D
