{"id":12979,"date":"2026-05-24T10:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/?p=12979"},"modified":"2026-05-24T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:51:12","slug":"the-secret-of-eternal-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/the-secret-of-eternal-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret of eternal youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to a family get together a few weeks ago, and mocked one of my cousins for using her phone like a Boomer as she was trying to take a group photo.<\/p>\n

\"\"This was needlessly cruel of me, but luckily her hearing isn\u2019t great, or possibly she was deliberately ignoring me.
\nI\u2019ve always used my index fingers on my phone, exactly as in the picture (minus the glasses), but a while ago I figured out that far from giving me the level of pinpoint accuracy I was hoping for, I was actually typing the wrong letters more often than the young people around me who were using their thumbs. This doesn\u2019t make anatomical sense to me, but you can\u2019t argue with (anecdotal) evidence. Plus, learning to use my thumbs would get rid of another marker of age, as if the wallet cover on my phone wasn\u2019t bad enough.<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s been a couple of months now, and it\u2019s actually worked. I\u2019m now much more comfortable using my thumbs on my phone or iPad, to the extent that using my index fingers now feels weirdly awkward. And, as promised, my accuracy seems to have improved at the same time. I\u2019m not sure what lessons I can take from this, though. Perhaps it\u2019s that you\u00a0can\u00a0<\/em>teach an old dog new tricks.<\/p>\n

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