You can live your whole life and never see the shapes of the buildings, the tone of voice of "community" groups.  You can hold onto a picture that is familiar because that's easier than trying to find a new frame that might better match the new wall that is the social paradigm of the decade.
Aging.  I am becoming more aware of my mental limitations.  Not forgetfulness.  Not something diminishing.  I mean to say that which I am limited in either care or understanding.  At work, when I talk to some representatives on the phone, I can hear the limitation in them.  While it may be in basic parts of mental faculties for them, I note that mine come into play more on the level of cognitive evaluation or subjective/objective appraisal.  I simply intuit and often don't want to learn more.  Why that is, I'm not quite sure.  I don't have a the type of people around me that challenge or compete the same way as friends from the past.  I am not in a career where I have ambitious collegues that I perform against in order to gain professional status and advancement.  All these things become less and less important to me and because of this I find myself lost in a....
