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Kerri: Never too late — or old — to start new thing

Kerri Thoreson modeling a T-shirt with a message intended to get older people to try new things.
Kerri Thoreson modeling a T-shirt with a message intended to get older people to try new things.

In her Main Street column in the Coeur d'Alene Press today, Kerri Thoreson writes:

I don’t often wear shirts with sayings on them but added one recently to my wardrobe. It features a variation of the Nike slogan, "Just Do It" with the addition of the word "Later." Some have interpreted it as celebrating procrastination but I choose to view the words to mean it’s never too late. Often we think, "Oh, I wish I would have done that in my 20s or 50s" or whenever. We can still do just about anything we put our mind to, even if it is later than we originally planned. I recall a Dear Abby column many years ago where a reader was debating whether to go to college and then to law school, bemoaning the fact that when she graduated in eight years she’d be 40. Dear Abby’s response: how old will you be in eight years if you don’t go to law school? More here.

Question: Is there something you haven't done because you think you're too old?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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