Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
Few people know how to be old.
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.
Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.
I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.