One of the toughest issues is acceptance. I feel like I have no other choice than to be who I am otherwise my genuine sense of self will be compromised. So I am staunch in my position and also choose to be a role model rather than just cave to what would be unrealistic and useless personas.
Personas based on things that are external to me. That at the end of the day have nothing to do with my inner reality. My inner reality is also my outer reality. The issue isn’t just about age but experience and knowledge.
I know better and I can’t deny that. The outer world, the insubstantial reality of the screen, is a place of ghosts and shadows. A place that turns flesh into ghosts. This is not my inner reality. My inner reality is a precious gift and a guiding positive spirit.
derekjamescarter 
Fascinating, I love the subject of the internal “world” we create, sustain and grow. This will have to be a subject we can elaborate on when I finally get to see you again.
actually not even sure if we create it. Its probably a naturaly occuring paralell event conjoined with consciousness. Anymore that we create the aldous huxley “mind at large” or the human/animal species “cloud” hinted at by the twelve monkey’s legend and how we do inherit information before we a concious of it or develop it.