How to Avoid Being Boring at 60

Having recently become a sexagenarian I have managed to fully solve this problem by completely running out of fucks to give, and they don't seem to be filling up again. I have proof: I have switched from belts to suspenders. Old age is liberating.

My in-laws watch so much TV, it's stultifying. I start getting antsy from lack of brain engagement if I have to spend too long sitting there. Build a model, read a book, write a book (or write a Wikipedia article, or a wikibook chapter if you don't like Wikipedia admins: everyone has something they know that they could add and the best way to learn anything is to write about it), take photos, anything that gets the brain moving!

Of course it's easy for me to say because to me, a computer with a compiler or interpreter and a web browser represents a bigger, more expansive, more interesting and exciting logical challenge than every crossword, sudoku or puzzle book ever written.

This is a problem for introverts from the age of forever.

There are a ton of interesting facts and new things to learn etc. on the internet, but those don't interest your average person.

If you talk to for example a family member it's a case of this person had a new baby, that child is doing this now, uncle so and so did this and that...but you can't really reciprocate because they're not interested in the amazing time you had punching people off of cliffs in Baldur's Gate 3.

If you're writing articles about it for the Wall Street Journal, you're still pretty boring.

(I'm not 60, but I can see it from here.)

Judging by my family the best thing you can do as you age is to stop talking about your ailments.

There is an element of whimsy in most of what he lists, and whimsy can easily be boring.

Of course, one way to avoid it is not to make it there:

  I love 60th birthdays
  I like the whooshing sound 
  they make as they go by.

  - Douglas Adams (died aged 49)

Pack it all in. You don't know how long you have.

Douglas is now lying in Highgate Cemetery, near to Malcolm McLaren, Karl Marx, George Michael (d. 53), Michael Faraday and Alexander Litvinenko (d. 44) - maybe don't take your tea near that one :)

please be boring.