RE: Changing tastes - have your views altered as you've got older?
You haven't aged a day! (on the outside; which is promising - one worry less). I note that people my age (49) are finding themselves on the "return" and feel about things -again- the way they did when they started out in adult life. Or in my case, I often feel like I am 7 or 9 again!
It makes one wonder what the interim time has been good for! People seem not to change in essence, but their characters become somewhat modified (or more extreme in some cases). This goes perhaps especially for expats, and kids born abroad, who tend to end up rootless, somehow. So no real homing towards middle age, but the urge to really start (not afresh, but just begin, as if one never really has, yet. This also, perhaps, comes with life taking over, not quite as planned when you unexpectedly become a parent. Or when you have been living somebody else's life - meeting expectations of parents or society....).
That's so interesting that your opinions have made an about-turn. Yes I think expats and people who move about a lot have the worst of this mind-changing thing. It's hard not to be affected by the culture where you're living, so you end up like a sort of chameleon, taking on the views and opinions (and fulfilling expectations) of wherever you happen to be at the time. Thanks for commenting!