All living things age and human beings are no exceptions. Aging is the irreversible process of getting older and is inevitable (Bromell, & Cagney, 2013) . It entails social and physical change and is responsible for a lot of changes in the physical appearance of people as well as behaviors and thinking. How old a person is, says a lot about that particular person and can provide a basis for judgment. This essay will look at what my age says about me and those around me.
In my mental outlook on life, I consider myself young and not old. This is because at 36 years am yet to be categorized as a middle-aged person and still active in my day to day activities. Being 36 years old means that my personality will not change much because events that I may have experienced as a child may still have an influence on my adult life as stated in Maas-Kuyper’s Study that personality is constant through adulthood and connected to early life experiences (Bookshelf Online, 2017).
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Taking a look at other people around me, for instance, my parents and grandparents, I would consider my parents to be old and grandparents very old. In doing this, I am using several baselines such as the generations and events which highlight some of the past events that they may have gone through for instance the great depression. The gender roles too can also be used as a baseline since being old is a different experience in men than women (Bookshelf Online, 2017). The elder-like study is also another baseline in determining how old people are as hardships incurred at middle age can bring inevitable losses of old age.
Conclusion
Aging process cannot be held back and there are different baselines to be used in determining how old one is. Factors such as gender determine one’s age as males and females age and react differently and on average the intrinsic biology ensures females outlive male. Several studies try and explain the aging process which until today has remained a mystery to man.
References
Bookshelf Online . (2017). Ceheindependence.vitalsource.com . Retrieved 21 May 2017, from https://ceheindependence.vitalsource.com/books/9781305176935/pageid/105
Bromell, L., & Cagney, K. (2013). Companionship in the Neighborhood Context : Older Adults' Living Arrangements and Perceptions of Social Cohesion. Research On Aging , 36 (2), 228-243.
