As James says, our society values youth. I spent several years in Japan and they were horrified by the way we treat the elderly in our society as past their usefulness. Age and the wisdom that comes from experience is seen as a highly valuable asset there.
Our culture values youth, but those of us who are lucky enough to have accumulated some years know that the wisdom of experience is so much better! I look back on my youth and am amazed at how much more I know - but it's not a book-knowledge, or intellectual, or...
What a wonderful perspective on aging. Our society tends to look at the aging process as a degenerative process. We tend to look at it only from a physical, not a spiritual or emotional or intellectual perspective. Thank you for sharing this. I think a l...
