One thing that always fascinates me, and you could probably tell if you’ve read this blog for amount of time, is the way that people age. More specifically, I’m intrigued by the fact that I feel like my generation, and even the generations that are coming after me, doesn’t look as old at certain ages as my parents or my grandparents generation did.
For a long time, going all the way back when I was in kindergarten, I remember looking at my elementary school yearbook. Specifically, I remember looking at the fifth grade photos. I mentioned the fifth graders because at that time, they were the oldest students in my elementary. I remember looking at those photos and thinking “my God, these kids look like grown-ups!”.
Of course, it’s probably easy to be five years old and look at a kid who’s 11 years old and I think that they look like a grown-up. However, even as I got to fifth grade myself years later, I looked at my own fifth grade school pictures, and thought “I still don’t look as old as those kids did back when I was in kindergarten”
However, even as we get older, I think it’s perfectly normal to see ourselves in the mirror every day and not really notice the subtle changes that happen as we age. Don’t get me wrong, when I went to my 20th and eventually my three high school reunions, I could definitely tell that I had aged since graduation. I will say this, however: there are some people who aged better than me, but there’s also quite a few people whom I aged considerably better than.
In any event, I don’t think it takes a lot of science to really understand the previous generations, aged physically more than we do now. I think back to my dad. By the time he was 51, he had already retired from his career. He had a three kids who were all college age. Now granted, I had a later start in life on the stuff that he did. I got married later. I had my kids at a later age. My career that started later than his day as well. so, it’s not fair for me to compare myself to my old man. But you get the idea. I don’t think I look like he did when he was 51. I certainly don’t have to carry myself for the same way he did when he was 51 either.
This stuff is all obvious. These are things that we can plainly detect with our own eyes. But occasionally, it is nice to have an article like this one to use some scientific evidence to back up our conclusions.
Still, I don’t think I’ll ever get used to walking through Walmart and hearing The Cure playing overhead on Walmart Radio.
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