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Re: Imagine yourself as an old person (60+ years old)
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
What are your thoughts about getting old?
Do you dread it? Do you fear the prospects of your body breaking down, retirement and idleness, fading into irrelevance in the eyes of the young, or the death of your parents, siblings, and friends? |
Holy fuck I've thought about this ever since I was six because I was like "shit I'm gonna be seven soon and that's really fucking close to 10 which is double fucking digits." Yes I knew how to cuss when I was six.
I've hit my "cute" phase and already into the "hot manly stud" phase but soon before I"ll know it I'll be that "old man in his 60s thinking WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?" phase. It's pretty depressing watch my mom (baby boomer generation) sigh about how guys used to ask her out in her 20s and she blew them off, how she had so much energy when she was in her 30s, etc.
I've thought about what will sustain me after I'm old and ugly SO much. So far the ONLY conclusion I've made that can keep me happy throughout the rest of my life is to maintain life-long friends.
I'm also considering making a career out of researching ways to prolong life. I want to live forever. People tell me "but jake I want to die" so I go tell them to kill themselves and they frown at me. But what if we could prevent our DNA from chaving off every time it unravels during duplication or keep free-radicals from fucking up our bodies? I'm down to live over two hundred years provided I don't look like Cher, don't you? Hell I was born three-hundred years too early. No one will have this "omg I'm gonna die eventually" complex by the 24th century.
| quote: | | If you imagine yourself as an old person, do you see yourself as tired, boring, depressed, or sick? Nostalgic about better years that have passed you by? What do you think you will be like as an oldster? |
When I'm old, I'm going to be that hilarious old man that says the shit that everyone's thinking. Especially racist things. This old (probably Jewish) lady inspired me to be just like her when she asked me, "Can you open the door for me? I'm so fucking old and fat and this sucks."
| quote: | | The popular wisdom runs that young people who came of age in the '60s and beyond have a dread of old age, as famously expressed by the Rolling Stones in "Mother's Little Helper": "what a drag it is getting old." Supposedly this has some connection to the increasing dominance of youth culture in Western societies, with its emphasis on hedonism, attractiveness, open and unattached sexual expression, spontaneity, and carefree ecstatic partying, all things that have traditionally been considered improper or ridiculous in an old person. The Baby Boomers, this story goes, are still wistful about their youth, and this is why we see an ever-increasing emphasis on products and lifestyles -- exercise, Viagra, anti-aging creams, cosmetic surgeries -- designed to encourage youthful appearance and vigor. Having swallowed whole the ideals of hedonistic culture in their younger days, today's graying hippies have nothing solid to sustain them in their old age, so they turn to palliatives like therapy and consumer products that offer them a youth and energy that in reality is always receding from them. |
Whoaaaaaaaa! I never thought about this. So the trends Hippies set ended up rehashing into the next generation as they got older. You are amazing for thinking this.
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Last edited by Jake Benson on Sep-26-2008 at 08:37
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