Poll: Do You Want To Grow Old?
It’s common for people to talk about wanting to stay young. We get our body lifted and our fat siphoned, pop vitamins and try to stay hip. Most of the time, it’s harmless vanity.
But not always.
My question is: Why?
I’m not talking about the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle.
I’m talking about the mourning of wrinkles.
The feeling that as we grow old, we’ve somehow miss out.
Regret.
I take a different view of growing old. I view each wrinkle as a badge. A mark of lessons learned. Proof, that the battle can be won.
To me, aging should be a process of continual learning. With each year that passes, we gain the wisdom to make better choices, and the experience to capitalize on them.
If we’re both lucky and persistent, we have a partner and friend with whom to share life’s victories and setbacks, each of which will make our bond stronger. To me, there’s nothing as admirable as a couple having shared their entire lives together.
Maybe I’m overly idealistic, or I’m missing the point, but I can’t imagine that changing. What about you? Is growing old something to be feared and avoided, or do you embrace the process?
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I don’t mind the idea of getting old, wrinkles, grey hair (or no hair), things like that are fine.
What absolutely terrifies me is the lose of control. Not being able to do simple things, or losing the ability contol myself and take care of myself. If I can skip that part then I’m totally cool with growing old.
“I take a different view of growing old. I view each wrinkle as a badge. A mark of lessons learned. Proof, that the battle can be won.”
Amen to that.
I have no fear of growing old. Indeed, today I find myself wiser thanks to my experiences – both good and bad. Life is so much the richer for all the stuff that’s happened!
Hi Greg. I accept growing old. I look forward to growing wiser and being more mature and experienced. However, as someone who is halfway home
, I still don’t want to grow old. I would like to stay forever young, but I am not going to have cosmetic surgery or other things that pretend reality is any different than it really is.
@Casey — I’m right there with you. The two things I fear most are loss of cognitive function and mobility.
@Geetali — Amen!
@Stephen — Nothing wrong with wanting to stave off the process through healthy living. I’m with you there. But I know so many people that agonize over every wrinkle. I know people that lay in bed crying on their birthday. That is something I can’t imagine myself ever doing…