Age is just a number…

How many times have you heard someone utter these words? I bet you, like me, have heard people saying these words more times than you care to remember. But what does it really mean? Does it mean that a person’s age should not be an excuse?

Sometimes we use our age as an excuse for not wanting to do things.”I’m too young! I can’t write a book yet,” that’s what I always tell people who are asking me if I’ll ever write a full-length novel…as if writing a book is something reserved only for those who have passed a certain age.

If there is anything that I learned over the past weekend it’s the fact that age is just a number. Does the name DJ Arch ring any bell? If it doesn’t, please Google him, watch his videos on Youtube and see the future of South African music. DJ Arch made history this past weekend when he went home with South Africa’s Got Talent’s 2015 prize money…and he does all this whilst he is only 3 years old?

You know what that means, right? At 3-years old he took home with him half-a-million rand. I can only imagine how proud his parents must be! This story just goes to show that age is just a number…

In my eyes, DJ Arch is what is sometimes referred to as a child prodigy. A child prodigy is defined as a “person under the age of ten who produces meaning output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer.” For example, Mozart, the composer, was able to play the harpsichord and by the age of six he had written his first musical compositions.

I don’t know how it is decided whether a person is a child prodigy or not, but I can’t help thinking of DJ Arch as South Africa’s child prodigy – with his talent at such a young age only the sky can be the limit, definitely not his age! All of this whilst some of us are university students and still trying to decide what our talents are… life was never meant to be fair, right???

ZZ xxx

Dish it: is age just a number?