Can someone learn a unique way of thinking if motivated to do so

Am 34 and have OCD. As a child and teenager was always self-conscious of age. This changed when I was 15 and learned something that helped me.

I was 15 years old in the year 2000. 2000 is a big number or large numbered year and is around the Millennium which seems like a big deal. Some even thought the world would end. I suppose I realized then that I had no control over aging or the passage of time, but at least when thoughts of age bother me, I can always remember and focus on how I was just fifteen (young) in a larged numbered year like 2000 (not 1900, not 1800, but 2000 around the millennium which is a big deal).

To try to make others understand. I guess it's comparable to how a high school athlete feels . . . Oh, I am special because I scored the 2000 record in such and such time. Or I got to level 2000 on this particular video game. Or in my case, I was only fifteen in such a larged numbered year like 2000.

I don't deny that I am 34 now. But it's like even though I can't control my age, It makes me feel special I was so young in the Millennium or large numbered year (which not everyone can say they were).

It bothers me because others clearly don't think this way. And I guess I want it to be, that if a person really wanted to think this way (not that they would want to) but if they were motivated to think this way when their age bothered them, that they could. You hear that people can change their thinking through mindfulness or affirmations, and my question is: If someone with non-OCD was bothered about their age, and really wanted to think differently, if they were motivated, could they ever learn to think the way I do?