I’ve had several friends who were bothered in their twenties, that they could no longer be considered a prodigy, because that sort of thing happened only to the young. Mozart wrote is first blah blah when he was whatever.
Never seemed to bother me. I just like making things. But it does give one pause to think, what does our society value in accomplishment?
Unfortunately, I don’t think our society values accomplishment at all. It values toys, appearances, wealth, status, power. I have long despaired of living up to, or rather down to, society’s standards.