It is here and it has arrived a lot sooner than I expected. I speak of the age at which saturatioin point has set it. There are concepts I just don’t get, phrases I am not willing to use and gadgets of which I do not see the point.

My whole life I have been late to the party (often literally). Far from being an early adopter, I like to observe first. I need to see the long term benefits or the benefit to me and my lifestyle before I buy into a trend, project or product.

A few years ago I read that the brain is fully formed at the age of 25 years old but it continues to learn and adapt after that. Between 25 and now, I have been inundated with new concepts, words, situations and inventions. Simply moving to Germany and becoming a parent would have kept my brain busy enough. But my children will insist on growing and developing, causing my brain to develop and adjust to their needs and the situations that arise thereof.

Even though I work in tech and have done for over 16 years, my life is not smart in the sense of smart devices. There are smart elements to my day, yes. But ours is not a smart home. We open doors with keys, switch things on with switches, use the built-in timers on appliances to regulate when our coffee starts to brew or our laundry finishes washing. My saturation point in things tech is not far off.

Then there is language development. Must I start using brand names as verbs, prefixing everything with “super” and saying “segue” far more often than required? Can we not just stop now? part of me wants to scream. And yet I know that when I was a child, starting a sentence with “And” was just not on. It was wrong. And now it is fine. See, I just did it. Twice. Twenty years ago I would have told you that the word “twice” with a capital T and a full stop is not a valid sentence. Now? Yeah, in the right context, it can be. Language developes and lives. I know that.

There is no denying it. I have reached that age.