Fortune
How do we perceive old age? Who is an old man to us? Is our age an advantage? Is it a flaw? Is it any significant fact? After all, the truth is that we live in a global culture of youth, where two things are hidden – old age and death.
To be old one in a cruel society permeated with the cult of youth and young body’s beauty, neoliberal dogmas as the only truth without any alternative, is to open up and publicize your disability or retreat into solitude so as not to disturb the young and the beautiful.
It has been clear to me for many years that there is a painful lack of such things as happy elderly couples enjoying life in cafes, restaurants, and other public spaces. Unlike in Italy or Hungary, we rarely see an older man working as a waiter in a restaurant – everyone is looking for young handsome girls.
Retired professors, artists, and teachers in my country are disappearing surprisingly quickly from the field of culture and publicity in general. Old age has become a stigma for us. Old age seems to remind you that it is time to become a private person again – a person just for yourself, just as you were before all your creative or just human achievements.
I always liked listening to old people, they hide so much wisdom. I do not consider any person as old. No. To me, they often seemed younger than me with their courage, lightness, attention to another, and passion for life.
© Fortune, 2020
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Are you afraid of old age?
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Yes
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No
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The key is to use all of that experience wisely so that others follow your lead.
i suspect the easy button applies here. I am part of the technology revolution that created the internet. I know how it works.
Based on that I still hold some value for younger people!
The Internet is the best thing that happened to us in this technology age. I just wonder which miracles we will not be able to see in the future as they will surely come.
there are many yet to come – but I would say medical technology in the last 10 years is the real value of technology overall!
I am not sure I even know how I got as old as I am but I know that I still love rock and roll and if I don’t look in the mirror I can forget about it.
Oh, mirror lies to us, my dear, LOL.
I see a lot of older couples around here out strolling. I love watching them and striking up a conversation with them. I am not afraid of growing older.
I confess that I am only afraid of the health issues related with age.
I think we all are afraid of health issues, and especially to bcome a burden to our family.
I always enjoy each old couple, I accompany them with my fascinated glance. In this age of divorces, it is great to see true love still exists.
Lots of wisdom comes with age.
Oh yes, that’s why I love listening to old people.