Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.
Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart.
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.
When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well.
Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.
The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.
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