But how much of the lack of energy and time comes from the age, and how much from the demands of our society? I’ve seen a lot of over stressed burnouted people talking about how they can’t do several things anymore, and blaming their age, but no one can feel energic when under severe pressure. They didn’t have that same pressure when younger.
While that point is valid, identifying it doesn’t make that pressure go away. If the idea is “You’d have plenty of energy to learn guitar if you just shun all of your responsibilities and sacrifice the already precarious stability of your life for more free time/start a revolution and restructure the entire nature of society”, then I don’t disagree, but you’re talking about something way more substantial and difficult than a flippant comic strip implying it’s an easy matter of “just doing it.”
I can see your point too. I also dislike the “you can just do it” thinking that ignores the person’s situation. Our pressures won’t simply go away by acknowledging them. However, I think it’s worth separating our obstacles and not attributing everything to age, or we take the risk of creating more age-related stigma in our society.
But how much of the lack of energy and time comes from the age, and how much from the demands of our society? I’ve seen a lot of over stressed burnouted people talking about how they can’t do several things anymore, and blaming their age, but no one can feel energic when under severe pressure. They didn’t have that same pressure when younger.
While that point is valid, identifying it doesn’t make that pressure go away. If the idea is “You’d have plenty of energy to learn guitar if you just shun all of your responsibilities and sacrifice the already precarious stability of your life for more free time/start a revolution and restructure the entire nature of society”, then I don’t disagree, but you’re talking about something way more substantial and difficult than a flippant comic strip implying it’s an easy matter of “just doing it.”
I can see your point too. I also dislike the “you can just do it” thinking that ignores the person’s situation. Our pressures won’t simply go away by acknowledging them. However, I think it’s worth separating our obstacles and not attributing everything to age, or we take the risk of creating more age-related stigma in our society.
Fair.