Quite true. I'm opposed to ageism as a whole. There are some
   forms of age discrimination which are appropriate, imo, but most
   of it is crap.

   You can unleash yourself from the weight of time. It takes some
   brain-retraining but it's possible. Let me find a study I did a
   few months back, it's related to this issue, the "acting your
   age" thing.

   Also, yeah, the moment you look back with nostalgia, you're
   already behind the times. You could be 10 and remember how much
   better Pokemon XY was than ORAS... and you've just become an old
   fart at 10. [I know because my nephew is doing that a bit and
   he's 10 tongue emoticon ]

   as far as "the norm", consider this: Most people follow life
   scripts. They get the life scripts from the same places their
   parents got: Movies, TV Shows - the days of religious influence
   upon life scripts is nearly past because its been replaced since
   at least Victorian times (the novels outlining lives nobody
   really has) and continuing through the advent of movies and then
   TV, etc.