Three recent revelations from three different regions of the world seem to re-affirm the adage, "You're never too old to feel young."
In Malaysia, authorities uncovered 900 boxes of premier coffee laced with Viagra. The manufacturer was selling his brand as an "energy booster." The reports have had little to say about the female customers, but a great deal of feedback from the male consumers. The government's dilemma now is do they celebrate or criminalize this blend?
Meanwhile, in the Vatican, art scholars have at last figured out who the mysterious face is in the corner of Michelangelo's famous "The Crucifixion of Saint Peter." It is Michelangelo himself, looking on in a blue turban. Apparently for the sake of posterity, the master portrayed himself in his vigorous youth.
Back here in the culture-of-youth we call the United States, the Pew Research Center reports the majority of younger Americans expect life to degrade rapidly after the age of 60. Whereas those over 60 often feel much younger than their chronological age. Pew's survey did not ask the over-60s to identify either their favorite coffee or painter, so any conclusions drawn remain open to debate.
The most elusive conclusion still persists. Why do the young always want to be older, and the older always want to be younger?Shakespeare describes old age as "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." Woody Allen says, "Art is ageless if only the artists didn't have to get old doing it." The Bible says, "Graying hair is a glorious crown."
Maybe everything depends on who you're reading...
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I think for a lot of people how they feel about age depends on how old they are at the time, what is going on in their life at that time, and what happened in their life in the past time. It's all relative!
ReplyDeleteNo argument there. Age is perhaps the most relative thing going in this age of relativism. Which means ideas about "young" "middle-age" and "old" are strictly moving targets.
ReplyDeleteThen there's also this thought. There is the age of our bodies and the age of our minds. Sometimes old minds live in young bodies, young minds in old bodies. No handy clocks to measure that....!