age and change?

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Would you believe I was once a long haired hippy freak?

[Tiger_Tamerlane]

yeah,sure

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I have changed and will continue to change many of my views.

I suspect that I will not change my core beliefs, though it took me from puberty (aaargh!) to my mid 30's to arrive at a full understanding of them.


When Churchill quipped that

"A man at 20 who is not a liberal has no heart. If at 40 he is not a conservative, he has no head."

he was not (solely ) trying to justify his political weathervaning. It is perfectly normal for a person's views -- and to some extent beliefs -- to alter substantially between 15 and 40. It's called growing up.

Now, if I could only mesh my sense of self at 41 with the metabolism I had as a 19-year-old!

Seamus