Reflection About Aging

This film is the story of a man named Benjamin who ages backwards, he gets younger and younger as time goes on. Benjamin’s mother died giving birth to him and when his dad saw what he looked like he was appalled and quickly took him away. Benjamin was left on the front porch of an “old folks home” or now what we would call a long term care facility, with 18 dollars. They took him in and treated them like one of their own, they did not believe he would live much longer though, as he had all the age related ailments of someone in their late 80’s such as arthritis and cataracts. As he grew younger and lived longer he started to fit right in with all of the older adults he was around, he was just like them, expect he was a kid who urged to play outside and run around. One of the elders who is staying at this house has a granddaughter come visit her, Daisy, and Benjamin quickly grew fond of her. Daisy understood that Benjamin was different and saw him, not for his age, but that he was a child at heart, just like her. Benjamin grows

Aging is so unexpected and you never really know what is coming your way in terms of aging. Lastly, it affected my attitude towards aging because there will come a day when it is all done and I take my last breath and I do not want to still have anger or harsh feelings towards someone or a situation, in this movie Benjamin taught me that you just need to let things go, you can't stay mad at the world forever or else you will just become a miserable person. Overall, this film positively affected my overall attitude of aging and made me more appreciative of it regardless of how bad it may seem. We are in a society and culture where no one talks about aging because it is intimidating, but before you know it were all going to be at the end of our lives wondering how we grew old so