"I've been this way for too long to change now"... "See, when you get to be my age"... "I have gone too far to turn back at this point". These are all comments that most of us have heard, if not uttered ourselves. And if we're honest, they feel very self-defeating, narrow-minded, and well, kind of hopeless. What is interesting though, is that even if the person who speaks these things has experienced disappointment and setback in their lives and perhaps not seen a lot of obse