The question is simple: Would you rather be born 90 years old and grow younger or be a baby growing to 90?
You probably have all heard of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a movie starring Brad gorgelicious Pitt, an adaption from the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1922. A baby is born looking and aging like an old man, then grows through life into a baby until death.
So, which would YOU prefer? Either way, you go through all the stuff of aging that none of us like (twice, as we do now), for example loss of bladder/bowel control, inability to walk/stand, think like you could at 30 and so on. At both ends of the spectrum of your life, you have no friends or family that you are aware of. Which ever way you grow, you know death awaits you.
The similarities are interestingly exact.
The job issue is boggling, by 65 you will, health allowing, want to take on a job, but how hard was school at 85 and 72? If you got poor grades, can you really handle manual labor in your 60s.
And just like now, if you have babies when your sex hormones are peaking at 15, that poor baby will have a parent who will only be available for a few years, and how will YOU care for a 90 year old?
Either way, life is a hard road to travel. We live alone and apart from our extended families so often now...unlike in past ages, most of us will die surrounded by strangers. Can't we do better?
Would you rather be 30 looking forward to being 21 again or 30 looking forward to being 40? Is either way so different a road?
Friday, February 5, 2010
Would you rather grow Young?
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The question is simple: Would you rather be born 90 years old and grow younger or be a baby growing to 90?
You probably have all heard of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a movie starring Brad gorgelicious Pitt, an adaption from the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1922. A baby is born looking and aging like an old man, then grows through life into a baby until death.
So, which would YOU prefer? Either way, you go through all the stuff of aging that none of us like (twice, as we do now), for example loss of bladder/bowel control, inability to walk/stand, think like you could at 30 and so on. At both ends of the spectrum of your life, you have no friends or family that you are aware of. Which ever way you grow, you know death awaits you.
The similarities are interestingly exact.
The job issue is boggling, by 65 you will, health allowing, want to take on a job, but how hard was school at 85 and 72? If you got poor grades, can you really handle manual labor in your 60s.
And just like now, if you have babies when your sex hormones are peaking at 15, that poor baby will have a parent who will only be available for a few years, and how will YOU care for a 90 year old?
Either way, life is a hard road to travel. We live alone and apart from our extended families so often now...unlike in past ages, most of us will die surrounded by strangers. Can't we do better?
Would you rather be 30 looking forward to being 21 again or 30 looking forward to being 40? Is either way so different a road?
The question is simple: Would you rather be born 90 years old and grow younger or be a baby growing to 90?
You probably have all heard of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a movie starring Brad gorgelicious Pitt, an adaption from the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1922. A baby is born looking and aging like an old man, then grows through life into a baby until death.
So, which would YOU prefer? Either way, you go through all the stuff of aging that none of us like (twice, as we do now), for example loss of bladder/bowel control, inability to walk/stand, think like you could at 30 and so on. At both ends of the spectrum of your life, you have no friends or family that you are aware of. Which ever way you grow, you know death awaits you.
The similarities are interestingly exact.
The job issue is boggling, by 65 you will, health allowing, want to take on a job, but how hard was school at 85 and 72? If you got poor grades, can you really handle manual labor in your 60s.
And just like now, if you have babies when your sex hormones are peaking at 15, that poor baby will have a parent who will only be available for a few years, and how will YOU care for a 90 year old?
Either way, life is a hard road to travel. We live alone and apart from our extended families so often now...unlike in past ages, most of us will die surrounded by strangers. Can't we do better?
Would you rather be 30 looking forward to being 21 again or 30 looking forward to being 40? Is either way so different a road?
The question is simple: Would you rather be born 90 years old and grow younger or be a baby growing to 90?
You probably have all heard of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a movie starring Brad gorgelicious Pitt, an adaption from the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1922. A baby is born looking and aging like an old man, then grows through life into a baby until death.
So, which would YOU prefer? Either way, you go through all the stuff of aging that none of us like (twice, as we do now), for example loss of bladder/bowel control, inability to walk/stand, think like you could at 30 and so on. At both ends of the spectrum of your life, you have no friends or family that you are aware of. Which ever way you grow, you know death awaits you.
The similarities are interestingly exact.
The job issue is boggling, by 65 you will, health allowing, want to take on a job, but how hard was school at 85 and 72? If you got poor grades, can you really handle manual labor in your 60s.
And just like now, if you have babies when your sex hormones are peaking at 15, that poor baby will have a parent who will only be available for a few years, and how will YOU care for a 90 year old?
Either way, life is a hard road to travel. We live alone and apart from our extended families so often now...unlike in past ages, most of us will die surrounded by strangers. Can't we do better?
Would you rather be 30 looking forward to being 21 again or 30 looking forward to being 40? Is either way so different a road?
The question is simple: Would you rather be born 90 years old and grow younger or be a baby growing to 90?
You probably have all heard of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a movie starring Brad gorgelicious Pitt, an adaption from the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1922. A baby is born looking and aging like an old man, then grows through life into a baby until death.
So, which would YOU prefer? Either way, you go through all the stuff of aging that none of us like (twice, as we do now), for example loss of bladder/bowel control, inability to walk/stand, think like you could at 30 and so on. At both ends of the spectrum of your life, you have no friends or family that you are aware of. Which ever way you grow, you know death awaits you.
The similarities are interestingly exact.
The job issue is boggling, by 65 you will, health allowing, want to take on a job, but how hard was school at 85 and 72? If you got poor grades, can you really handle manual labor in your 60s.
And just like now, if you have babies when your sex hormones are peaking at 15, that poor baby will have a parent who will only be available for a few years, and how will YOU care for a 90 year old?
Either way, life is a hard road to travel. We live alone and apart from our extended families so often now...unlike in past ages, most of us will die surrounded by strangers. Can't we do better?
Would you rather be 30 looking forward to being 21 again or 30 looking forward to being 40? Is either way so different a road?
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