{"id":4064,"date":"2024-03-01T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2024-03-01T20:18:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T02:18:41","slug":"ageism-is-okay-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/ageism-is-okay-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve decided that ageism is okay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 1, 2024 &#8211; Prosper, TX<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m retired from radio I&#8217;ve kept busy writing a weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/barrettnewsmedia.com\/author\/dave-williams\/\">online column<\/a> about radio. I get to sleep four hours longer than I used to and I work at home in my sweats but I&#8217;m still focused on radio, just from a different perspective. Nothing wrong with that but I want to expand my world so I&#8217;ve been exploring some options.<\/p>\n<p>I have been thinking about going back to school. I never graduated college, maybe I should go back and be the one old fart in every class. Still mulling that over.<\/p>\n<p>Writing fiction is my passion and though I can string words together nicely I don&#8217;t know anything about the craft. I wish I had gotten a writing degree when I was young but I didn&#8217;t. Now I&#8217;m looking into some online classes but they&#8217;re expensive. And what I do know from my experience is that in the end you still have to be willing to do the work. I&#8217;ve been mulling that over for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing I would love to do is act. I did plays onstage for 20+ years when I was much younger. At the time, when castmates of my age were trying to get professional acting careers started I said, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to wait until I&#8217;m old. You see the same old people in movies and on TV all the time. There aren&#8217;t many of them. 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We saw him everywhere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have arrived. No, not as a professional actor, I have arrived at old.<\/p>\n<p>I signed up for a free subscription to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.backstage.com\/\">casting call website<\/a> for actors. Some of the jobs are unpaid, and some claim to pay very well. They all describe the actors they&#8217;re looking for, mostly young people. Over 50 is rare and calls for actors over 70 are nonexistent. That&#8217;s fine, I never expected to burst into Hollywood in a leading role at 72. I figured background acting (still referred to as &#8220;extras&#8221; if we&#8217;re honest) and maybe a sentence or two here and there would be great fun.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s what dawned on me this morning as I was looking at the casting notices and writing courses:<\/p>\n<p>Creativity is imagined to be a young person&#8217;s ability.\u00a0 All the websites I&#8217;ve looked at for writing courses feature pictures of happy young college types. Casting notices are the same. For some reason, our society assumes brains wither as bodies age.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago in my 40s and 50s, I entered some playwriting competitions and was incensed to find contest entries restricted to &#8220;young playwrights&#8221;. Some actually specified &#8220;under 30&#8221;, or words to that effect. It pissed me off, and rightly so. I just lied about my age. It&#8217;s none of their business, right? I don&#8217;t have an expiration date.<\/p>\n<p>Not incidentally, I won four of the half-dozen playwriting contests I entered.<\/p>\n<p>(Paul McCartney, now 81, was asked ten years ago if he shouldn&#8217;t consider getting off the stage and letting younger performers have their place in the spotlight. &#8220;Fuck &#8217;em,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;Let them work their way up like I did.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my point, and I think this may surprise you because I&#8217;ve written several ageism rants in this blog over the years. That, in itself, makes the point: I&#8217;m still learning and so will you.<\/p>\n<p>I have gotten to an age where I don&#8217;t think ageism is a big deal. It&#8217;s a state of mind based on the perspective of the observer. It&#8217;s normal and natural, and sometimes it is reasonable and warranted.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t portray a man in his 40s no matter how much time I spend in makeup. I&#8217;ve talked about this recently on the radio, about radio.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t hire a 60-year-old on-air personality for a Hot AC music station, you just can&#8217;t. 30 years is a lifetime. Inevitably the old guy is going to impart some of his life&#8217;s lessons into his shtick.\u00a0 Just as inevitably, the young audience will roll their eyes and say, &#8220;Okay, Boomer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is how life works. When we&#8217;re young we think old people are stupid because they&#8217;re old. Old people think young people are stupid because they&#8217;re too young to know what they&#8217;re talking about.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re both right.<\/p>\n<p>I understand the need for laws banning hiring discrimination of all kinds but you can&#8217;t legislate reality. Life experience and perspective can&#8217;t be ignored. It&#8217;s the result of personal growth through aging. It&#8217;s what keeps us fascinated by learning and passionate about life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a fat old fart looking for a TV or movie walk-on. Hell, I can even deliver lines believably.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t tell me I&#8217;m too old to write. I&#8217;ll kick your young playwriting ass.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 1, 2024 &#8211; Prosper, TX Now that I&#8217;m retired from radio I&#8217;ve kept busy writing a weekly online column about radio. 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