Lessons from 'Old' and 'Young' people.

The father of a friend of mine told me he noticed something with 'Old' people vs 'Young' people.

He claims 'Young' people tend to wear clothes that add to their identity, shirts with names, logos, jeans with tears, clothes different sizes, tight, short, long, baggy, Designer brands, brand names, buying clothes from certain stores. etc. etc.

And that 'Old' people tend not to feel the need to express themselves with their clothes.
The theory, 'young' people don't have experience and need to add to their identity.

'Old' people have the experience and are generally more comfertable with who they are, whether others know it or not.
In my opinion he is bias toward his own generation, but everyone is at least a little bias to their own situation.

From this observation you might take out that 'young' people are more inclined to wear clothes made with newer techniques.

Anyhow back to the point.

I'd like to give a different spin on this observation and theory, to put forward that identity has more to do with confidence than experience.

Someone who wears clothes with logos for example, is drawing that confidence from outside of themselves. The logo represents something to people, i.e. exclusivity, which adds to your perceived identity.

People with an inner confidence tend not to cloud their identity with outside influences.
Almost like a void of obvious identity is a blank canvas, allowing other traits to fill in the picture.

So how much stuff do we have in our lives that is driven by our sense of outside identity?

A good point to finish on.

Hope this helps.

Chris.