I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.
The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea.
There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.
The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.
What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?
I get all fired up about aging in America.
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.