Stop Stopping

It's better to not stop the things you used to do than to start a new way of being that never includes the things you stopped. 

One thing I realized as I've been watching some of the concert footage of the current Rush tour is that here's two men in their mid-70s playing music that I listened to when I was 17. By 1980, I had kind of moved on from Rush, but Rush hasn't moved on from itself.  With Anika Nilles, it's now an intergenerational band, an idea I had back in the aughts, in which I would put together a band where all the band members would be from a different generation--the drummer might be 20,  I would be in my 60s, the keyboard player would be Gen X, and the guitar player would be a Millennial. 

Why is it that when we get older, we stop enjoying the things that we liked when we were younger? I think it's great that they're still playing the old material, and playing it well. We can find ourselves in our 60s and 70s having nothing to do when we really feel like doing the things that we used to do.