If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.
As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.
I think older women still have a full life.
People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time.
You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.
At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.
The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.
Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.
It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.