When do we become old farts?

in #life5 years ago

For some reason, when people want not to grow old, they start to favor rap, marijuana and get a tattoo. Most guys of forty years old and more, who want to be in a trend, not very tightly realize that the style of music, the style of their pants and the change of social network have nothing to do with aging of the soul.
Not at all.

To be young means to be able to accept something fundamentally new. And if the video by Kendrick Lamar is something fundamentally new for a person, then in his heart he has long been an old fart.


How do you do,fellow kids?

Truly new things relate to morality. Musical genres and clothing styles are replacing each other, but morality is moving in approximately the same direction: towards greater freedom, honesty and openness. And it is precisely at this moment that the majority of cunning people who decide to deceive their midlife crisis are at an impasse.

They can dye their hair in any color of the spectrum, but it is difficult for them to accept that gender is a spectrum.
It is important that a person first looks at this new unknown thing, and then he looks at his life experience. And he thinks: "No, my past tells me it's some kind of shit."

And just then he becomes an old fart. When he prefers the well-known past to the unknown future.

He will do reposts of cool memes for some time, but he is no longer part of the brave new world. He is just an observer on a bench in the park. Party will be with completely other people.

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Ecclesiastes 1:9 New International Version (NIV)

9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

Because life is so finite and we are such flawed creatures we do tend to try to hold on to youth or ideas of it longer than we should, but that's only societies view of what age is and what trends are not associated with a certain generation.

I think that the seeking of attention is why people try to retain some sort of relevancy while those who are comfortable with themselves couldn't be too bothered. While they may be seen as an old far inside they are still as insecure and impressionable as they were when they were a child

I always thought that the concept of "age" and "youth" is incompatible) Especially now, in our modern world.
These two concepts can go side by side, but they incorrectly see a correlation between them.
You can be young at 70, as it seems to me, and for this it is not necessary to make a tattoo and wear sneakers.
I notice that the older generation is more and more attracted to young people, because they see in them a fresh breath of air and new ideas, this is wonderful. But this is fine as long as the elder worship does not forget who they are, remains itself, remains simply open to everything new and accepts changes in the world, and does not play the role of a “boy” and “girl” while inside them there is a war between modern values ​​and their personal beliefs.

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