Tag Archive for: Reality

Following up the implications of mid-life in youth society.

Promises and Dreams are very interchangeable.
I endorse to turn dreams into self-promises.

The dreaming effect is only temporary.
Dreams have limitations, I don’t like gambling.
I favour self-promises, certainties, loyalty.

A self-promise is a desire.
Desires are real.
Dreams are momentary illusions.
I promised to myself and God to go home in His time.

Where is it written in the Bible that one must be established by 40?
That’s the neurotypical thinking, good for them.

Why not dying at 40 if we accomplish everything by then?
What’s the point of living to 90-100 as wrecks?
Yes, you heard me right, Wrecks.
That’s what over 40s are for the workforce.

Let’s not say that we extended life.
Over 40s are virtually dead.
Better the Middle Ages, when 40 was the average lifespan.
People didn’t get old and age was seen as wisdom.

I was very disappointed with the radio comments of a pastor about age, saying that we must get old at 50 and prepare for death.

We must always be prepared for death, but not strive to get old.
We must strive to keep young and fit at any age.
Even in the Bible there are references to fitness:
“Stay awake, cause you don’t know the time and hour He is coming!
And wash your face often when you look tired!”

I always feel emotionally young, as result of having been deprived of my biological youth.
I want to outlive my youth now.
Your personality defines age, not your wrinkles, and they will be my most beautiful years.

“Ageing is an extraordinary process where you become what you should always have been.”/ David Bowie 

The downsides of technology have proven stronger than the benefits. It is no longer a generational thing. 

We’re experiencing an Internet meltdown for the last few days and I feel isolated.
I never felt that way in my youth.

Internet started as a valuable resource in the mid-90s just to turn into slavery.

I had my first cellphone at 30 without regret, they were the best years when I knew where to find my friends at any time of day or night in 24 hours’ London, UK.
Friendship was in a different realm: starting a conversation with strangers was absolutely normal and welcomed in a British pub.
Everybody was a friend even for one night.

Nowadays, one has to make friends online first, eventually in real life after long exhausting chats.

The question is whether adaptation comes easier than imposition.
Recent studies on teen-agers showed a reduction in anxiety after few weeks off social media and more interest in life activities.
Internet has gone out of control too quickly.

My take is that Imposing has always a negative effect on Mental Health.
It leaves no options.
I believe my generation is more flexible since we went through the process of Adapting.