After’s yesterday’s story, about how quickly time seems to pass as you get older, I thought I’d explore the benefits of aging, today. How’s that for a positive statement? 
The benefits of aging.
I know. You think I’ve gone mad. Well, prepare to be surprised.
Think about it for a minute. Ours may be a youth-centric culture, but not everything around us is.
Many wines mature and become better over time. And more valuable. The longer you age cheese, the better it tastes. In fact some cheeses are aged for as long as three hundred years. Imagine.
Art and artifacts and furniture are worth more with each passing year. In fact, the more ‘worn’ they are, the more the paint is peeling, the more scratched and shabby they all are, the more we covet them; and the more we’re willing to pay. If Van Gogh and Michelangelo and Monet and Modigliani and every other artist and artisan of yore, had even a clue how much money their work fetched nowadays, they’d never believe it.
What about vintage cars. Collectors pay outrageous amounts of money for them, despite the fact you can barely Continue reading
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