Changing

 

Life changes as we get older; we see things a little differently than we did as a child, a teenager, or even a young adult.  Most of the time, but not all of the time, we change from being liberal to being conservative in the way we think and act; however, the change hardly ever pertains to our political views and opinions.

This transformation is particular obvious in the way we spend our money.  When young, we borrow whatever we can, whenever we can, to have whatever we can.  That behavior typically puts us eyeballs deep in debt.  As we age, our desire is to remove/eliminate that debt and spend the rest of our lives only spending the money that we have.

Another example might be the clothes that we wear being more flamboyant and exotic when we are young and more sedate as we get older.  Same holds true for the vacations we take, the excursions we go on, or our desire to body surf in the ocean not too worried about the waves or riptides that might be present.

There is nothing wrong with being either liberal or conservative in the way we behave, it is just an observation that this is the transition through which must of us pass on our way to death.  It does not mean that once we are through this transition that we will soon die, it just means that we are close to death than we were before.