You know how old people like change.

I think of my mental state as still competent if not a little slo mo. I grasp new content and directions and thoughts with much enthusiasm, even if my retainment level is questionable.

I am not happy with WordPress these days, though.

I didn’t create my blog using blocks. I don’t like blocks. I don’t want blocks.

I get it I get it — it probably is much easier for today’s younger bloggers. Like the whole world of computers and AI, move forward or live forever in the gray.

But I still don’t like blocks.

So I find myself duplicating old blogs and retitling and rewriting copy and images and rechecking the boxes so my blog matches my categories.

Yes, there is a way to get into classic mode, but it’s so convoluted it’s easier to cut and paste the old fashioned way.

What is wrong with me?

Is it that once we get older we get stuck at roadblocks and would rather make a new road rather than go through the alternate route?

Are we that stubborn as to give up learning something new just because we don’t really “get it”?

Or are we just stubborn old fools?

I hate the word OLD. Any form, any insinuation. The word instantly puts a connotation in others minds that we’re worn out, useless, and out of date with the world.

Yet I find myself putting my toes in that pool all the time.

I hate not being able to learn as quickly and thoroughly as I used to. And I hate letting myself get worked up over something that I’ve already found an alternate for.

My husband says I always make things harder on myself… that  I do everything the LONG way.

He may be right. After all, I do love the song “Take the Long Way Home” by Supertramp …..

Does it feel that your life’s become a catastrophe?
Oh, it has to be
For you to grow, boy
When you look through the years and see what you could have been
Oh, what you might have been
If you would have more time

So, when the day comes to settle down,
Who’s to blame if you’re not around?
You took the long way home
You took the long way home….