I personally disagree with the statement. I believe that there remains a widely held misconception that the ‘enjoyment of life’ must be accompanied by youth, vitality and energy. In order to substantiate my arguments, I must insist on a more profound elucidation of what is meant by ‘enjoyment of life,’ in order to demonstrate how old people are actually more capable of succeeding in these pursuits compared to young people. Firstly, old people have the means to enjoy life more than young people do. Young adolescents, teenagers, and perhaps young adults like myself rarely have the financial means to fulfill the desires we wish to pursue the most. For example, it has been my entire lifelong dream to travel to Europe and experience the dazzling …show more content…
Old people would already have a lifetime worth of experiences and lessons to draw upon, and so will be less prone to repeating the same mistakes that plagued them in their youth. Young people, on the other hand, are embarking on their life journeys for the first time. Their route will be fraught with obstacles and wrong decisions. Young people are more likely to be preoccupied with the wrong things and will not have the time to cherish time as it passes by. For instance, my grandparents (both of whom are soon to reach their eighties) are fully cognizant of what joys they would get from life. They know that no joy can derive from spending their entire day gazing at the television or spending endless pointless hours on the Internet. Instead, they seek to fulfill more gratifying experiences, such as taking a stroll in the park, visiting a tranquil and serene spot, and appreciating the beauty of life at its best. I, however, being markedly younger and more inexperienced than they are, waste my days in pursuing superficial and comparatively meaningless goals that will only cause me stress and worry, such as worrying about my examination grades and getting into the right school, when in fact these things bear little impact to the end result of my life. My grandparents therefore have the ability to obtain a deeper insight of what “life” is about, and then to fulfill that quest with pursuits that would genuinely bring them
Taking the following questionnaire: Satisfaction with Life Scale, Approaches to Happiness Scale, and Authentic Happiness Inventory, helped me evaluate my life. Many times due to circumstance we forget in what positon our life is standing at the moment. We forget how much we have accomplished in the past and how much we have invested to make our future a good one. For the Satisfaction with life scale, I score a 33(love their life and feel that everything is going very well). People may might say well she is living a perfect life, but to be honest is not that is being perfect, is that one day years ago I made a decision of not letting anything take away what I have worked hard for. According to Earl & Carol Diener, because positive moods energize approach tendencies, it desirable that people on average be in a positive mood (1996). If I make a mistake, which is possible because am human, what I do is learn from it. It’s like what the Apostol from the church I go to says” you control life, not life controlling you.”
Mature Adulthood (Ages 50-80), Benevolence: Those in mature adulthood have raised families, established them in their work life, and become contributors to the betterment of society through volunteerism, mentorships, and other forms of philanthropy. All of humanity benefits from their generosity. In addition, we all can learn from their example to give more of ourselves to
True, the citizens of this "brave new world" do enjoy many refinements and benefits to life. Lenina shows one thing they enjoy when on the reservation she sees an old Indian man and reacts with, "'What's the matter with him?'… 'He's old, that's all,'… 'But the Director's old; lots of people are old; they're not like that.'" (Huxley 110) Evidently Utopia has succeeded in eliminating the effects of old age. Being able to live one's entire life youthful certainly would be wonderful. It is not a thrilling prospect to grow weaker with age, gradually having your sense's perceptiveness fade, so most anyone would prefer this 'unimpaired youth.' There are other things which also make life easier, pointed out by Mustapha Mond talking to John the Savage, "'But there aren't any wars nowadays…There's no such thing as a divided allegiance; you're so conditioned that you can't help doing what you ought to do. And what you ought to do is on the whole so pleasant, so many of the natural impulses are allowed free play, that there really aren't any temptations to resist. And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a
To date, researchers have not found a single theory that covers all people. Growing old can mean different things for different people. However, a common trend between all elderly people is that individuals who had active lives as young adults generally remain active as older adults, while individuals who were distant in their young lives become more disengaged as they age. In both theories, the old commonly conduct a person life review where he or she may reminisce for houses on end, muse over photo albums, or visit childhood places. They seek to share their life’s experience with another and try to find purpose and meaning within their lives.
Many do not like to talk about their age and their aging process, because to some, chronological aging has much more meaning than just the number of years that they have lived (Hooyman et al., 2015). Age really is just a number. There are centenarians and super-centenarians, like Flossie Dickey, who are still going strong at and living their daily lives with minimal restrictions (Hooyman et al., 2015), and people who struggle at the age of 80, it is all about aging successfully (Hooyman et al., 2015). What it means to age in society is a constantly changing concept, and now that the baby-boomers are starting to reach their older adult stages, maximum life spans are continuing to rise (Hooyman et al., 2015), and we see more centenarians and super-centenarians and skipped generation households (Hooyman et al.,
There are a number of benefits to be found from thinking about ageing as a lifelong process and not just one that affects older people. This essay will define some of these benefits whilst backing up this reasoning with reference to the K118 material. It will then explain briefly which experiences I have had personally which have led me to responding to the question in this manner.
Becoming older is a natural progression of life. Late adulthood is the period of life in every individual that follows the period of his or her life after he/she turns 60 years of age. Being active, eating healthy foods and handling stress have been shown to greatly improve the quality of life for senior citizens.
Active ageing does not stop when elderly people retire, as they can remain active through their families, peers and communities. Active ageing aims to allow elderly people to realise and bring awareness to their own psychological, physical and mental well-being. As the goal of active ageing is the autonomy and independence of elderly people (Alexandre, Cordeiro, & Ramos, 2009). Ageing is a continuing life cycle, it is an ongoing developmental event that brings about certain changes in one’s own psychological and physical state. It is a time in one's own life where an elderly individual reminisces and reflects, basks and lives on previous accomplishments and begins to finish his life cycle.
Late adulthood should be a time in a person's life where they feel fulfilled. They can look back on their memories and be happy with the way they have lived their life. Now, too many elderly people are not satisfied and look at this stage as depressing. Most fear death of either a loved one or for themselves. This topic is interesting to me because elderly people should make the best of their last stage of life. This topic discusses about getting older, the life changes that they go through physically, emotionally, and mentally. We should know more about it so that we can help our family and friends get through one of the best, yet toughest part of our mortal life.
Increased life expectancies have many reconsidering whether the fountain of youth is merely a legend. For many families, longer life spans have allowed them to spend more time with loved ones, time that may not paint the picture imagined.
Aging and being old was dominated by negative characteristics and conditions such as illness, depression, and isolation for a long time (Eibach, Mock, & Courtney, 2010). At first glance the terms “success” and “aging” seem to be in conflict to each other. When asking people about aging, their answers have many facets that are also found in psychological definitions: successful aging is seen as health, maturity and personal growth, self-acceptance, happiness, generativity, coping, and acceptance of age-related limitations. In the psychological sense successful aging is also often seen as the absence of age-associated characteristics (Strawbridge, Wallhagen, & Cohen, 2002). It seems that successful aging means is not aging.
Every time a second passes by, you have grown older. You will never get back the time you spend doing unavailing matters, however, you will learn and strengthen from these principles. Whether you are hanging with peers or doing simple things like sleeping, you will learn and grow. In the act of flourishing, you learn how to stimulate your development of creativity, causing it to expand. As you flourish, you gain new experience, allowing you to become wise, sharing the experience with others. Like a blossoming flower, always leaving something behind. Unpleasant and unlawful acts are bound to happen as you mature, but ageing provides a way for you to conceal as well as let go. Ageing
I have always been to asking myself what is meaning of life? or what I supposed to do ? or what I have to achieve? . Meaning of life what 's you have been given? what you have given by different kind of human? Or what I believe or what I do not believe in life .Everybody have Meaning of life it depends between person to person, I found myself when I was young because my parents always talk about experience in their life.Throughout my entire life ,I have wondered about the significance meaning of life that has beneficial for the people, because the life is beginning odds and ending odds .Even though struggle of life, I believe meaning of life are ,regional ,ambition, participate ,achievement ,and happiness .Due to this, I
I believe that happiness is the key to living a good and prosperous life. Through all of the sadness and hate in the world, happiness gives me hope. It gives not only me, but others hope and joy. Happiness gives us something to hold onto, therefore we cherish it as much as we can.
Everyone 's goal in life is to make sure they live a meaningful life, it 's what makes people motivated and how they rate themselves. We all run into this quandary which has challenged philosophers, scientists, and a numerous amount of other people. ‘How do we live a full and meaningful life?’ No one has entirely figured out how to live a meaningful life, but there are several key points researchers have found that help people find their meaning and satisfaction in life. We need to know what 's important to us, pursue our passion, discover our life 's purpose, spend more on people than things, express ourselves and have courage, prioritize human connection with others, and know meaning and happiness