A lesson in how to"

Subject: A lesson in "how to".

Life can be very complicated if you let it, if we let our emotions overrule our heads, if we lose our equilibrium by trying to keep up with someone else.
Life teaches you that there are seasons. Being caught out in a t shirt when it's raining and cold means you haven't taken the precaution to look outside the window. The world outside is forever changing and one of the disadvantages of life is that change is more difficult to manoeuvre around as you get older. An older person has a history within which he or she has been culturally acclimatised over a period of years where past experience is continually getting in the way with the 'present', never mind the 'future'.
Take the workings of a computer program, not the technical bits but the procedures you carry out through a sequence of key strokes to get the thing to work and do the things you want it to do. Now there is the problem that word 'sequence' a sequence which is unforgiving, one wrong stroke and the destination is denied.
Added to this the Windows 'techies' or the Google 'boffins' are forever changing the track on which you travel. Switch off the computer tonight and it's likely that the path has been changed and a fork put in the road by tomorrow.
If you are young and not set in your ways this is of no concern but if like me your happy to do the same old thing, week in week out then when you get a deviation you stumble around like a drunkard completely unable to think your way through. Memory which has becoming a little stretched is of no help since you do things by rote rather than by comprehension.
Probably the hardest thing to bear is the creeping sarcasm which meets your every fumble. Hard because in years gone by you were the rock who knew everything and now, like the Emperor with no clothes, you know nothing. The skids are truly on and the descent is swift and steep.
Best not trouble yourself with the need to know, apparently things change so fast these days, every bit of knowledge you need is on Google. So long as you can understand the language and know how to disseminate the obscurity of the directions you might just get there and if you don't, too bad the worlds a crazy place these days and the computer describes much of what is wrong anyway.