The person growing older is still allowed to begin liking something new.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Taste is assumed to settle with age, and people around an older person often stop offering anything unfamiliar. But there is no age at which a first encounter stops working. Someone at eighty can meet a new kind of music or a new food and have the reaction they would have had at twenty.

Bring the older people in your life something new occasionally, rather than only the familiar. Let them dislike it without treating the offer as a mistake. And if you are the one being handed the same things year after year, say you would like to try something you have never tried.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What new taste have you developed later than people expected?

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