I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
Age affects how people experience time.
Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.
'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'
In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.
Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.
Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.
'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
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