Those in the boomer vanguard turned seventy this year, a marker that traditionally indicates you are in the “old” category, no longer middle aged. This can be hard to fathom for many of this generation. We thought we would never get old, we lived for “the day”, in a kind of free wheeling way.
Who wants to be old? Our society, unlike some others, gives old age a bad rap. It is not thought to be the most desirable of all the stages in one’s life, not at all. Partly to blame is the huge anti-aging industry, those businesses and corporations on a campaign to sell their products or services so we can prevent getting aged. They helped create the idea that looking and feeling old was not what we wanted.
Who wants to be old? Our society, unlike some others, gives old age a bad rap. It is not thought to be the most desirable of all the stages in one’s life, not at all. Partly to blame is the huge anti-aging industry, those businesses and corporations on a campaign to sell their products or services so we can prevent getting aged. They helped create the idea that looking and feeling old was not what we wanted.