Start a hobby at twenty-five and you might be the oldest beginner in the class. Someone has to be.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
Every beginner class has an oldest person in it, and the fact that it might be you says nothing except that you arrived. The discomfort is about being watched, which is mostly imagined; the others are busy being bad at it themselves. What you are weighing is a few awkward weeks against years of being able to do something.
Join the class rather than waiting for a version of it with people your age. Tell the teacher you are new so the pace starts in the right place. Give it six sessions before you decide anything about whether you belong there.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Would you still start if you were the oldest one there?
MORE IN GROWTH, CHANGE & REINVENTION
- Thank the older person at work who answered your hundredth question without sighing. That was a choice.
- The first friend you make after a move might not be your forever friend. They’re your first one, and that still matters.
- You can thank an old friend group for who you were and still choose who you’re becoming.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.