SENTINEL WATCH June 8, 2009 Issue

BEYOND THE QUESTION OF AGE

Frederick R. Andresen

"ACT YOUR AGE!" That parental response to an over-exuberant child is meant to restore calm and impose order—for the moment at least. And for kids, it serves a purpose.

But for those approaching the time when they'd rather not receive birthday cards, it can carry a very different connotation. Then the natural hope is to be seen as younger and smarter, especially if they find themselves interviewing for a job.

As an interviewee in such situations, I found it effective to market my potential and not my past experience. If age was perceived as a distracting factor, I made a point of facing down and invalidating that perception. As a Christian Scientist, I would reason in Mary Baker Eddy's words that I lived in an "eternal noon, undimmed by a declining sun." Also that "as the physical and material, the transient sense of beauty fades, the radiance of Spirit should dawn upon the enraptured sense with bright and imperishable glories" (Science and Health, p. 246).

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