Death is and will inevitably be a part of everybody’s lives sooner or
later. Our culture fears the acknowledgment of this fundamental aspect
of life. We intentionally fail to endorse the idea of death as a
habitual part of our fallen world. In our present society, we put youth
on a pedestal. We human beings underscore the idea of remaining young,
which begets the thought that wrinkles mean death is knocking at the
door. We use aging as a nexus for lamentation. We sympathize for
ourselves as we get older because our culture places a heavy emphasis on
both beauty and living freely. Aging makes its easy to lose that “free”
mentality and lose that physical beauty (which dominates today’s
society). Such a concept can cause human beings to feel like lesser
people when their beauty dissolves over time and death creeps in their
minds.
I am critical of this attitude (which leads to morbidity). We
should cherish aging. We should value those who transform generations.
As adults age and despondent feelings arise, they must push those
emotions away. People need not count their days
(especially with a negative connotation) because that is when they begin
to lose their eagerness to wake up each morning. That is when carpe diem
turns meaningless. That is when optimism turns pessimistic. That is
when we stop counting the greatest moments in life, and begin counting
the moments we will soon lose and never again experience. Therefore, in all we
do, whether we are 20 years young or 60 years young, we must remain
fervent about our lives, and never proceed to sulk as time goes on.
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