Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The Seventh Tuesday We Talk About the Fear of Aging
On this day, Mitch and Morrie talked about aging and how people fear it. Society puts pressure on people to stay fit and look good. Mitch is terrified of aging so he does everything he can to appear young. Morrie's perspective was much different than Mitch; he doesn't buy the emphasis on youth because young people are full of struggles and emotional strife. Young people are not wise, they know little of life and are easily manipulated. As Mitch fears aging, Morrie embraces it.
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I would first like to say that Morrie is completely correct when he says that most people younger are usually afraid of aging. I agree with him because when I get older I know I won't be able to do some of the child like I do. He also does make a point that, for him he loves to age because he will know more than that younger person. Therefore he is wiser and we all know when you feel wiser than you fell like you have more power. This is where the time in my life where I should start to change because than I will know more than the average person and probably do better than people who don't. I then know I will more power than person, so I do agree with what he said. I also do agree with him when he said (page 117) when he says that the younger generation is not wise and that's true, so far because most people did not learn as much from their elders and don't care to listen. Mitch (page 117-118) on the other hand said he afraid of mostly what lies ahead and is worried about future challenges. I am not like Mitch and I do love usually a good challenge and there I would agree that I will now take aging as a good sign in life instead of a dread.
ReplyDeleteAging is a part of life nobody wants to do it. When we are kids all we say is I want to grow up, I want to be a big kid. When you get older you realize you wish you never said that. I personally would love to be a kid again. Watch my mom give me baths, and feed me. I miss those days so bad I wish I could go back to being young again but we can't. When Your little life is a lot easier your mom and dad are always there for you and do so much for you. I miss playing with the toys and all the stuff we had as kids. Morrie has the chance right now to feel like a kid he's being treated like a kid and he likes it. I also agree with Morrie here.
ReplyDeleteMcKenzie is definitely right on this one; no one wants to grow up once they get older. After the age of ten your parents always become "jerks" to you (although it's just you became a jerk to them 99.9% of the time), and you just want to o back to being a little kid again. I honestly miss sitting in the room building New York out of legos, toy cars, and Polly Pocket characters. Although I can do a lot more with my little cousin now because I am older and we understand the sports, we can actually play football, baseball, basketball, and my favorite pool.
ReplyDeleteAging happens to everybody, but most of us do not like the idea of aging. When we’re younger we always say, “I’m ready to grow up!” But when we get older we regret that and wish we were younger. Most people wish they could go back to when they were younger and that is what our current generation advertisements and others things are trying to do, make us younger. Morrie tells Mitch and us to embrace the sign of aging. He said it’s ok to envy the younger people, but not 24/7 just like self-pity from the Second Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteNone of us really want to become old. We always miss when we were younger, when we could be childish and people wouldn't give us weird looks. Then they thought it was adorable, seeing a little kid acting like a fool. But, with aging, you become wiser, more experienced. I have to agree with Morrie, even though I do fear becoming old myself. With age, comes wisdom. Why would you want to go back to when you were naive and foolish all the time when you could me wiser if you are older?
ReplyDeleteWe all know we are afraid to age at some point in our lives. We all dread becoming weak and useless like Morrie. Morrie, however, loves it. He says it's like being a baby again. Haven't you ever wondered what it was like when you were less than a year old because you don't remember it? I agree with Morrie and I almost can't wait to feel that again because you can live in the moment again. It's like you suddenly reverse time and go back to the past. Morrie also says how young people aren't wise because they haven't lived through everything. Morrie has been every age and at the end of the chapter he tells Mitch that this is why he doesn't envy him. Morrie has already been there and done that in a way. I hope that when I am aged I look back at my life and I am glad of what I have accomplished. I wouldn't want to look back like most people do and wish to be a certain age again. Even though I would also miss doing certain thinks I can while I'm young, things like dancing, I just want to be glad I did them. My great grandfather somewhat reminds me of Morrie because he went to Italy since his time was running out and that's what I want to do before I die. Keep moving forward instead of wishing I should've done something while I was young or wishing I was young again and can do it now. No I want to be able to push myself to do everything I can before I can't anymore. Therefore, we shouldn't be afraid to age. We should want to keep moving into the future and do as much as we can and we should want to see how our life plays out but try and make the best of it at the same time.
ReplyDeleteAlthough aging is something the majority of us do not want to think about once we become an adult, it will happen regardless of what we do. As we grow, we gain knowledge. I would have to agree with Morrie on the aspect that "the young are not wise." Even though I am only 15, I understand more now than when I was 10 or 11. Everyone is aging at the same rate, so why are we so afraid of it? We know we are going to die sometime. I have to admit, I am afraid of aging because I don't want to die, but now I think I should embrace it. People in my family, like my grandmother, embrace aging because she learns more every day. "Aging is not decay, you know. It's growth." I believe that we can't live our life in fear of dying. We have to accept the idea of dying one day so that we can live a better life. When I do something stupid, my grandparents will often laugh and say, "I remember when I was young and did stupid things." This proves that older people gain knowledge from their mistakes. Aging is not just decaying of the body. Morrie could not be more correct when he says that people only say they wish to be young again because they have had an unsatisfied life. Why would we want to go back if we already fulfilled our lives? It does not make sense. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
ReplyDeleteAging is inescapable. Every living thing on this planet ages. People Mitch's age tend to push the thought of aging to the back of their mind for as long as they can. Society makes people feel like they have to look good so they start exercising, dying their hair, etc. Mitch talks about how on every billboard he saw, there was nobody who looked over the age of thirty-five upon them. It's like society is pressuring everyone to look a certain way even though we can not really help the way we look. Morrie says that being young can be a misery. Kids came to him with their struggles and feelings of not being good enough. He said some of these young adults were so miserable that they wanted to take their own life. One of the problems with society is that everyone is expected to look young and fit and perfect and sometimes the desire to do so is so much of a burden that people want to end their own life. Aging is something we cannot help and we need to learn to accept it the way Morrie has.
ReplyDeleteWhen you are a young child, all you want is to grow up. You want to be treated like an adult. When you actually are an adult, all you want is to be a kid again. Why is this? People are afraid of being "old." They will do anything they can to appear younger to the rest of the world. They all want to fit this "perfect image" that society has set. Mitch will do anything to appear younger. Morrie has different views. Morrie thinks that aging is a good thing. I agree with Morrie. Sure i don't want to grow old, but its not something I can stop, so i might as well enjoy it. I think the main reason some people fear aging is that they fear dying. Like mentioned in the fourth tuesday, a lot of people fear death. Aging is just one step closer in society's eyes. I don't really fear aging. Like Taylor said, aging brings knowledge.
ReplyDeleteAging happens to everyone and that's part of life. Every day I tell myself " I wish I was a little kid again" I had so little worries and regrets when I was little. Becoming older becomes more responsibilities, more worrying, and you regret more. I agree with Morrie when he tells Mitch he that it's ok to worry about aging and the younger people, but don't do it for too long. Don't dhow too much self-pity for aging. (Second Tuesday) The reason so many people fear aging is because they fear of dying. But why live life about worrying when is your death? live each day like it's your last.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with Morrie that younger people are at least a little bit afraid of ageing. I know I am because I don’t know where to start after high school, you become an adult with your own responsibilities and you are no longer able to rely on your parents. Society believes half of us are either doing drugs or super successful when we grow up. We don’t need that pressure put on us to do a fantastic job or we will be unaccepted. Its true young people aren't wise and we don’t know what to do later in life. I mean, I love acting like a child, I am the girl who kept my window open waiting for Peter Pan to come take me to Neverland.
ReplyDeleteJust like death, aging is inevitable. You can’t stop yourself from getting older. When you’re a little kid, all you want to do is grow up. Once people become independent adults, they seem to wish that they could go back in time. Morrie said that this wishing occurs when people have unsatisfied lives. You learn more as you grow older. As you grow and learn, you realize what you should have done at a certain age. This is where envy comes in. Older people see younger people and realize how much time they have to find meaning and purpose in their lives. They realize that they too had that time when they were young. If people use their time wisely when they’re young, they don’t usually envy younger people when they are older. However, if they don’t use it wisely, then they will probably envy the younger generations when they grow old. If you are caught up in trying not to age, then you will just be miserable. There is nothing that we can do to keep ourselves from aging, so we should just embrace it.
ReplyDeleteKinda funny as a kid the only thing I wanted to do was grow up. Every time I had to blow the candles out on my birthday cake I'd wish that everyone would see me as an adult. Here I am now just started high school finally getting somewhere, just what I wanted.Now that I look back on it I was wrong. To be honest I'm scared, of the future what it has in store for me. In the end I'm still a kid, I have no idea what out in the world. Now that i'm starting to grow up I have no clue what I want to make of myself. When I was little I thought I was going to grow up and be a pokemon trainer. I had it all planned out every detail. Even moving to Japan where all the pokemon lived at least according to my mom. One day I realized that dream would never happen I just made It all up in my head kinda silly right? I guess growing up isn't as good as it seemed. I'm sure Morrie looked back on his life and thought the same.
ReplyDeleteEveryone ages yet most people don't want to age. I agree with Morrie on the fact that we all have our time to be twenty three and fifty eight. All that matters is what we will do with that time. If you waste it then you will not be happy with how your life turned out and you will keep saying you wish you could go back. We all need to make the best of our time so that we make ourselves and all the people around us happy.
ReplyDeleteMost people hate aging. As you see on TV all these commercials are about products that will make you look younger. To be honest though no one really can avoid aging it's just natural. Everyone has their time to be young, it is their fault if they don't spend it how they wanted to. Everyone can regret something in their life but they can't go back and fix it because the past is the past.
ReplyDeleteI feel that our feeling about aging change through the years of our lives. I know from when I was younger, that all I wanted to do was grow up big and strong, but if I knew how it was going to feel when I got to the age of fifteen, I think that my opinion would have been different. Now, as a fifteen year old teenager, I don't want to grow up, I still wish for the easy life of a child. Morrie had stated on page 120 that "You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue." We have to look at what we have at the age we are at. I had my time to be ten years old, whatever I did at that age is history. I don't really feel a reason to really look back, because dwelling on the past is going to get me nowhere. The present is the most important time of our lives. We can't stop ourselves from aging, that's part of life, but if we play our cards right as we get older, I feel that aging will not be as bad as we expect it to be.
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ReplyDeleteMorrie explains that people are afraid of aging because we all long for our childhood dependency. I feel that we should all long to be older because as you grow old, you gain more knowledge and wisdom. We all fear growing old because we feel as though we are getting closer to dying. We are all going to die eventually, and we need to accept that. Aging is a natural thing that happens to everyone. Even if you acted the same as when you were young, your body would still grow age. You can not stop it, so why not embrace it? We all long to be young, but if we really could be a modern day Peter Pan, we would not gain the wisdom you get as you age. When you are older, you start a new chapter of your life filled with new things to do and bring you joy. You learn to enjoy the simpler things in life. When you grow older, you realize what you truly believe and why you believe it. Aging is not something to be afraid of; it is just a normal thing that you can not stop. You grow older every minute you are alive. Enjoy the process.
ReplyDeleteOn The Seventh Tuesday Mitch and Morrie talk about the fear of aging. When we are young we never want to become old. When we get older you start to more independent, you have to start doing things for yourself and with your parents. When we think about getting old we fear and wonder how and when we are going to die. Also Older people wish they were young again. Like Morrie says you shouldn't want to go back to a certain age you should want to keep getting older and not wanting to get younger.
ReplyDeleteYou see adults always looking for the “you look young for your age” compliment. When I was young, I always tried to act older than I was, and sometimes add a couple years to my age. Adults, on the other hand, tend to want to be young again. I never understood this, but now I do. People envy growing older; they must feel like the older they get, the closer “their day” will come. Morrie, however, says the older you are, the wiser you are. I concur with him on this statement. Every day, we learn something new. So, why do adults yearn for their childhood? They should look forward to becoming more knowledgeable every day. Morrie says on page 121, “How can I be envious of where you are-when I’ve been there myself.” This wraps up his point by basically saying people need to look forward to what life has to offer instead of what life had to offer. You can't stop yourself from aging, so just face the facts and make the best of life.
ReplyDeleteThe main thing i get from what they talk about in this chapter is to not be saddened by againg and not look back. Morrie said "if your always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy. To explain this more it just means that if you always want to be something that your not you will never accept yourself and enjoy being who you are, and if you enjoy being who you are your life will be better. Which is the purpose of what Morrie and Mitch are trying to accomplish.
ReplyDeleteEveryone fears aging eventually. It is inevitable to fear it because everyone looks at it wrong. Morrie is saying that aging is not just getting new wrinkles, but it is also growth and development throughout your whole life. People do not think of aging as growth. They just see it as their running out of time. Most of these people are probably not very satisfied with their lives, so they see aging as running out of time to have the life they really wanted. If you fight aging, you will never develop and you will always be the same. People who fight age are unhappy because they age anyway and they are still running out of time.
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ReplyDeleteEvery person wishes they were younger than they actually are, yet aging is going to happen no matter what, it is inevitable. People fear the idea of growing older, because they fear the thought of being old and dying. Yet dying is not the only thing that is going to come because of aging. As you age you become more wise, and you develop. Morrie says that the young are not wise, this is very true. The young are not wise because they have not experienced everything that people that are older have experienced. Finally Morrie says that people should not wish to be younger because they have already experienced the things for that age.
ReplyDeleteAll you ever hear kids say is they don't want to grow up but the thing is it's going to happen. You also hear adults say I want to be a kid again because it's so much simpler. It's only simple because you don't have big responsibilities. You rely on your parents for everything. Yes, I wanna grow up but I'm scared of whats to come. Morrie hits the nail on the head when he says young people are ignorant and older people are wise. Growing up is a part of life and you can't escape it. We have to be prepared for wherever life takes us and face everyday head on.
ReplyDeleteWe've all heard the saying 'You need to grow up sometime." yet some don't realize when saying this to a child it could scare them. We all grow old, it's part of the life cycle. It's true not all young people are wise, but as we get older we become wiser. I'm in between about growing older, some part of me wants to grow up and fulfill my hopes and dreams but the other part of me still wants to be a little girl again playing with my Barbie dolls and having tea parties. I know everyone feels that when you grow older your life is almost over, this is not true it's only over if you make it over. I feel I'm maturing instead of growing old. In this situation I believe that Morrie is trying to say "You're never too old to have fun." in other words you can still do the same things that younger people do no matter how old you get. Maybe this is why is love Disney so much. I believe that Walt Disney never grew up he just grew older in age. "Age is but a number, maturity is a choice."
ReplyDeleteI feel on this topic that you should embrace it. Doesn't mean you can't be disappointed about it. But you should definitely not hide it. I like that Morrie doesn't worry about that. And in his case he already has the women he loves. Which loves him for him not for what he is or what he looks like. Morrie takes the right path for this topic and I feel like Mitch should embrace his age. And live life! Who cares what you look like? If you don't like it then oh well.
ReplyDeleteOn this Tuesday, Morrie and Mitch talk about aging. We all look at getting older as a bad thing, but Morrie looks at it as a good thing. Morrie embraces aging and says " Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth". This is a truthful and good way of looking at getting older. When you get older you aren't just physically getting old, you are becoming wise. Everyday of your life you learn something new, so if you have been living a long time you know more than someone who hasn't. You may be in a worse physical state than somebody younger than you, but you are much more wise than them which is more valuable.
ReplyDeleteIn our culture, everyone wants to be young. There are countless ads for products that help give you that younger, more "attractive" look. Aging is feared and undesirable. Nobody wants to grow old, I know I dont, but Morrie has learned to embrace aging. He says as you grow, you learn more. Aging isn`t just getting older, it`s growth. Morrie also thinks that people who envy the younger people are unsatisfied with their lives. You have to accept who you are and embrace it. Every once and awhile Morrie does feel some envy for younger people, but he detaches himself from the feeling and moves on. He says how can he be envious of someone younger than him when he has already been there himself. We shouldn`t fear aging, we need to accept that it is just part of life that everyone will go through.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why everyone is afraid to get old. We cannot escape it, so we should not be scared of it. Morrie says that the young are not wise. This is true. I think we learn more as we get older because we go through more. We do not just decay as we get older, but we grow. Just like Morrie, I think we only say we want to be young again when we think we did not live our life the best we could.
ReplyDelete“As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth.” (Page 118) Most people believe that with age comes wisdom, I can say that I believe them. But I also think that aging is a scary thing. As a teenager, I do not want to think that at some point I will not be able to do some of the things I can do now, but to some level I know that as I grow older I will become wiser, and I know that people who are younger than me will be able to benefit from my knowledge on certain topics. I think that this is why Morrie was not afraid to age. He knew that in his old age, he would have years of experience that he could tell other people, so that maybe they would do things differently with their life. Some people want to focus on the bad things that come with aging, which could be losing some of your independence, but to some level I think that people are happy that they will get to share their wisdom with other people.
ReplyDeleteMost of us will look at aging as a bad thing, but Morrie has a different outlook, he looks at it as a good thing. He tells us to not envy the times of our youth because we're not going to get younger. Morrie is right, we are not going to get younger in fact, we are only going to get older. He states, "It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it." This is true because you do grow wiser as you become older. You experience more and learn more each day, so the older you are the more you have learned. People do not always have to be envied by their physical state, but they can be envied by their knowledge and by how much they know. Sometimes people focus so much on the physical state of others and not how enviable the knowledge people older than you are.
ReplyDeleteMost people fear aging. Morrie, on the other hand, sees aging as a great thing. As you age, you gain so much knowledge. You become more mature and more observant of your surroundings. Even though you don't look as good as you used to when you were younger you still gain more knowledge, which in my opinion is way more important then good looks. Morrie talks about the miseries about being young and I agree with him. Being young comes with a lot of pain. You go through the struggle of not fitting in, not having the nicest things, etc. Some young people's struggles are so extreme that they want to end their own lives. Being older means you become more wise. You'll think back to when you were younger and think of all the silly things you used to stress over. You shouldn't fear aging because it happens to everyone and you cannot stop it. So many people spend so much time trying to perfect their imperfections, and "stop aging," but it happens to everyone and you honestly cannot stop it.
ReplyDeleteMorrie embraces the fact of aging. He sees many good things that come from it, but Mitch doesn't understand why he thinks it's good to be at old age. Most people at an older age are wiser than your average teenager or young adult. As a teenager I makes a lot of mistakes in life, but as I get older i will know not to make those same mistakes again from experience. Mitch looks at all the billboards on the high ways of handsome men, and beautiful women, and seeing that makes him want to look like that. Truth is though Mitch was once that age and so was Morrie. Mitch also asks how he doesn't envy the younger people? Morrie explains that he once was that age and he had his turn to be in his 20's, 30's and 50's. Now though he will enjoy being the age of seventy-eight. Every one has their chance to be a certain age, you don't want to stay a certain age forever. "If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. As you grow you learn more." This is very true, and we shouldn't fear that we are aging instead embrace it, just as Morrie does.
ReplyDeleteThey are now talking about aging. Nobody likes to age, they want to look young forever, but again, its part of life. There is no need to fear aging, everybody goes through it. Sometimes parents and grand parents think back to their child hood. All the times where they were worrying about the silly things and now that they are older, you are smarter and stress over the important things in life, so what if you age, dont be scared, be happy.
ReplyDeleteThe seventh Tuesday is on the subject of aging. This whole chapter was a battle for me to make up my mind with who I agreed with. Morrie makes the argument that aging should be embraced for staying young means you are staying ignorant. Mitch makes the argument asking why would someone want to age if it means growing weaker and losing strength? Both men made excellent points of veiws. I feel torn between the two arguments. You have to think of the perks of being young, and the downfalls of being young. Strength vs. wisdom. However, you just have to accept the fact that everyone ages, and eventually, as Morrie said, everyone will die. So, you wonder, really, ARE people just afriad of dying? Is that why everyone wants to stay young? Or is it because of today's world, where staying young and being beautiful are the popular things to do?
ReplyDeleteIt seems by this chapter that Morrie is kind of happy that he is getting older, besides the reasons he gave. He says it gives him one more time to be a child again. For me, I never want to ever grow up. Being a kid means I can do kid things that people don't think are weird! If im a kid I can still play games and watch kids cartoons and I wont be criticized. Plus I can still ask my parents to make me food. If I was an adult and did all this, it would be very embarrassing. So to sum this all up, I never want to grow up!
ReplyDeleteIt's funny, because when we are young we can't wait to be older, but when we are older we are wishing we were young again. i Think Morrie is trying to say that no matter what age we are we should embrase it. I think thats right. We should take advantage of whatever age we are and experience everything there is. I am sometime wishing that I was already out of school, but after reading what Morrie had to say I don't think I will feel that way anymore. No one should be afraid of aging either. You can't go through life be unhappy about aging, because it never stops. Morrie says you learn more as you get older. I believe that everyone learns something new everyday. You become more intelligent as you age. After reading this I have learned that we should not be wishing to be younger or older, but yet embracing our own age.
ReplyDeleteOne common thing among people is they fear getting older. Although growing older is not always a bad thing. As one progressively ages, one tends to get smarter and wiser. If everyone was always young, then they would remain ignorant and most Lilly make poor decisions. I know a number of people who are not happy with their age, and often wish to be younger again. I think the most common reason for this is that they often have not completed everything they wished to accomplish. I hope as I grow older i realize how wise I have gotten, to not take advantage of it, and do not wish I was younger.
ReplyDeleteMorrie said, "if you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow." I feel that his statement is true. Kids don't want to enjoy the time they have to be young because they envy having the freedoms and responsibilities of an older person. Older people with unfulfilled lives wish to be younger and relive those times because they didn't get the chance to do it when it was their time. Time is limited and and you should cherish all the time you have left
ReplyDeleteOn the seventh Tuesday Morrie and Mitch talk about the fear of aging. Morrie says that when you are old you have experienced every age up till your own age. He also says that it is impossible not to envy younger people. This means that even though you envy younger people, you have to realize who you are. You can do this be day detaching yourself from emotions of envy. Morrie also says that since you already experienced a lot of ages, you can always connect to them. There is also a time to connect with a younger, healthier you. However there is also a time to connect to an older, wiser you.
ReplyDeleteMost people think that aging is a bad, ugly thing. Morrie thinks differently. I think the older you get, the wiser you are. On the other hand, Mitch thinks aging is the worst thing, he wants to be young his whole life. Morrie wants Mitch to know that aging does not affect the person that you are, only you can change, just because you get old doesnt mean you are unable to do thing you could do 15 years ago. Depending on you, aging can be a good thing or bad thing.
ReplyDelete"To wish for youth indicates an unfulfilled life, and to fight age is fight a hopeless battle, because aging and death are inevitable, and part of life."
ReplyDeleteThis is my favorite phrase about this seventh Tuesday: The fear of aging. No matter what you do, you are always going to age older. But, it is your choice to accept. Morrie had accepted and realized he is growing into a old man. This doesn't stop him. He has been through many age types. Childhood, Teenager, Adult and Elderly are the ages he went through. He had said that even thought he is an elder, he remembers the fun times of the younger ages and feels like he is still those ages. Remembering your times as an younger person can change your life, whether you regret them or want to experience it again. And having a fear of growing old can stop you from having experiences of the younger ages. "Life is too short," my father quoted. Indeed, life is too short.
Aging is not a bad thing. It is something that you have to do, just like dying. I don't mind that I'm going to get old, because you have to face the fact that you cant change that. You can make yourself look younger, but deep down you are always going to be old. When your a kid you wan to be older, because you don't want to be a kid anymore. When your getting old you wish that you were still young. When you are older you are more wiser, which makes aging no so much a bad thing. Being wise is better than being young
ReplyDeleteI am going to have to disagree with Morrie on this one. Simply because my definition of "young" is different from Morries. When I think of the word young, I think or a person between the ages of five through fifteen. Most people will tell you that you had so much freedom and such little responsibility in that age range. I think Morrie considers "young people" to be older than what we think. Morrie also says that people who "wish they were young again" are most likely unsatisfied with their life. Think about it: If they want to go back to their younger years, they obviously want to change something that could benifit their life in the present day.
ReplyDeleteMost people fear aging because they see it as decay. However, they should learn to think of it as becoming wise. The older you get, the more knowledge you attain. If people were to stay young, as they wished, then they would remain ignorant of all that life has yet to offer. “They (the young) have very little understanding about life,” Morrie explained. They fall into the habits of other people because of what they say, do, or wear. As you grow, you learn what is important in life and how to enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite sayings, is this, "With age comes responsibility, knowledge, and maturity." If you talk to people on the streets, you'll realize that a lot of people are indeed, afraid to age. They see it as getting closer to death, but if you look at aging as Morrie did, you would learn to accept it. Why? Because you'll realize that aging isn't so bad. My mom tells me all of the time that when you age, you don't want to stop. Why? Well, because she learns more and more each day, and my mother's only 33. She's learned a lot as her age has gotten higher.
ReplyDeleteSome people are afraid of never doing the things you could when you were young, and wishing you could go back into time and take that chance, or take something back, but the past is the past, and unless Back To The Future was real, you can't do anything about it but apologize for your wrongdoings, and keep moving forward.
But, I believe that aging isn't bad. I'm honestly am afraid of it, but I know that I will do everything on my "Bucket List" before I'm too old to do certain things.
Another one of my favorite sayings is, "Life is short, so make the most of it."
Which is true. For many 80+ years may not seem like a long time, but it really is. There's so much to learn, explore, gather, see, and experience in that amount of time. As long as you don't just sit back, and make nothing of your life, you'll never live in regret when you're "older".
I agree with Morrie on this one because aging is something that you cannot stop. You can always make yourself look younger with different clothes, hair, or accessories but deep down inside you are old. When you are young between the ages of 1 to 9, all you want to do is grow up but when you are in between the ages of 10 and about 19, you realize that you don't want to be old anymore and you start doing the dumb stupid things that all teenagers do. As you get older you stop doing those things and get wiser. So really aging isn't as bad as you think because as you age, you get wiser.
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ReplyDeleteAfter reading this chapter, I realized that Morrie is trying to embrace aging to Mitch. Mitch wants to stay young and doesn't want to look old because he believes in the culture. He wants to be young just like everyone else. Meanwhile, Morrie disagrees with all of it. He sees growing old is to show wisdom. Having wisdom is proof that you are experienced in life and understand what you've experienced. He says that he doesn't want to be young again since he has already experienced much in his life. It would be like being the narrator of a movie showing a life story because you already would know the things that are coming. So I can understand why he feels this way and I have to say that I do agree with him.
ReplyDeleteMost people are afraid of getting old because of two things, bad looks and death. I'm one of those people but if you think about it, there is not one thing you can do to not age! You have to accept that you're going to grow up, weather you like it or not. As your growing up you get to experience so many different things in the world, weather it be new cars, tv's, phone, ect. The world as we know will move on and gain new things with or without an individual here. Aging, unfortunately causes loss of family members or friends but one day you will all be able to come together again! I saw in a recent post about how on commercials they always have ads on looking younger, I disagree with that sort of fake young stuff. Everyone you know will age and get old also, so why not you? Just make the best out of your life.
ReplyDeleteMorrie makes very valuable points towards not wishing he was younger again: he's already been there and with age comes wisdom. Both are true. I understand what he is saying. If we stayed a certain age we'd always be that age both physically and mentally. We'd never be smarter than what we were at that age. It makes sense not to wish you were younger. However, it is okay to envy the young. You can envy their health and their looks and that's a completely different thing. You're not wishing you are them. After reading this Tuesday, I kind of look forward to aging. I can't wait to see what new things happen in the world and learn new things as we go along. Aging is actually a pretty good thing.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, Morrie is correct on this topic of aging. Young people do care about their appearances and what everyone thinks of them. They struggle to fit in. When older people are much wiser and know that a true friend will except you for who you are. Younger people also wish to be older so they can skip certain things in their life. But those same things the younger generation wants to skip, is the same stuff the older generations wish they could go back to. All in all no one is really happy with aging, except a few. Except the few the enjoy aging, that enjoy becoming wiser.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Morrie because as you age you learn more things, you go through a lot more hardships. As you pass through them, you will pick up things that will help you get through others. In my family, the elders teaach the young how to take care of themselves. I think everyone practice's Morrie's ideas. As each day passes, we all learn something that will help us later in life. When we age we not only become older but wiser. I do not understand why older people envy younger people. The young look up to their elders and depend on them. When I grow old, I will not have to let envy control me.
ReplyDeleteHopefully when I am older, I can have the same feelings about aging as Morrie. He does not envy the younger people, which is great. Morrie knows that he was that age and that fit at one time as well. Therefore, he can not envy the younger people. He says an agreeable statement, with age comes wisdom. As everyone gets older, I feel they gain wisdom through experience. The longer you have been around the more information you pick up, I say. Before I heard Morrie's words, I probably would have said I will envy the younger people when I am older. However, now I will not because I will be wiser, and I will have the experience they have plus more.
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