Vintage and Antique Easily Defined
by Michael Feeley
This is worth knowing.
Something is considered vintage when it is between 20 and 99 years old. That is the window — two decades to a century — where depth builds, where character forms, where what was made becomes something more than it started as.
At 100 years and beyond, the classification changes. It becomes an antique. Something rarer still. Something the world protects, preserves, and travels to see.
Most of us reading this are vintage. We are in the years where everything we have lived is concentrating into something finer, more complex, more itself. That is not a metaphor. That is the literal definition of what vintage and vintageing mean.
And if we are fortunate enough — if we tend ourselves the way a gardener tends something worth keeping — we may cross into antique territory. I’m going for that! I don’t mind the word at all. The world treats antiques with reverence. Museums are built around them. People cross oceans to stand in their presence.
The world has it backward when it comes to people.
The Vintage Way exists to correct that. To say plainly what should be obvious:
You are not declining. You are deepening.
The longer you go, the rarer you become. A living artifact. A relevant relic.
Thanks – Michael (he, him)
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