To Make A Point!!!! - Aging Issues Message Board

ezmoneymuchfun · 10-04-2002, 02:04 PM

Friends.

There are societies and, yes, there was a time in our society where the "aged" were respected and looked to as sources of wisdom.

What has happened!? Madison Avenue has convinced us that being immature is the ideal. Every child wants to be a teenager and every adult does too. What is wrong with this picture?

My suggestion, and the choice for my life, is to live as one who is proud to be older; happy that I no longer have the challenges that cling to youth.

You make your choice!

buck58 · 10-04-2002, 06:15 PM

I agree ezmoney, But right now its so entrenched in society I don't think we do anything about it. Eventually it may go back to the way it used to be but we'll probally be dead and gone. Oh well! Just wanted you to know I'm on your side. see ya.
buck.

ezmoneymuchfun · 10-07-2002, 10:06 AM

Thank you so much for your kind reply Buckman my friend. I am regretful that you are so quick to surrender to the immense flow regarding the disrespect for aging. Although I am quick to agree that the tide is mighty and the flow is strong, much has been accompished by the voice of one (or two?) who take a stand against the majority.

Perhaps we change only one person at a time. If so...that will be enough!

headman076 · 11-03-2002, 02:25 AM

Hi....I think you will see this change much sooner than you think. If Majority has the say on "Madison Avenue". Because this nation already has its first "New" breed of older person and we will be the largest group of older folks ever to have lived, "The Baby Boomers". Never has there been or probably will be again, so many people alive that are within 20 years of age to one another. I can't believe with so many of us in this category we can't influence those that be to recognize this as a strength to be reckoned with.

ezmoneymuchfun · 11-04-2002, 01:03 PM

If there be others then I shall welcome them but until then, even if I am the only lone voice, I shall stand for the truth. With age comes responsibility to show those who follow the higher path to follow.