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"The director of one of the nursing homes I have studied said, 'We do not become children as we age. But because dependency can look childlike, we too often treat the elderly as though this were the case."
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"Oh, once you've been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn't want you back. Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. "We-by whom I mean anyone over sixty-commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman's memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight."
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"I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to."
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"I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?"
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"As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty."
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"Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further."
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"The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned."
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"Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity."
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"Some people do not really hate aging, they merely love the colour black."
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"I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings."
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"When you start believing that you are too old to enjoy something, you lose so much joy in your life."
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"Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds."
Society
"The director of one of the nursing homes I have studied said, 'We do not become children as we age. But because dependency can look childlike, we too often treat the elderly as though this were the case."
Aging
"Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead."
Technology
"You end up isolated if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude, the ability to be separate, to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so that you can reach out to other people and form real attachments. When we don't have the capacity for solitude, we turn to other people in order to feel less anxious or in order to feel alive. When this happens, we're not able to appreciate who they are. It's as though we're using them as spare parts to support our fragile sense of self. We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us feel less alone. But we're at risk, because actually it's the opposite that's true."
Solitude
"Rapture is costly, it usually means you are overlooking consequences."
Desire
"I miss those days even though I wasn't alive."
Memory
"Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one."
Humanity
"As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts."
Childhood
"Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical."
Technology
"This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by 'solving' it without addressing it."
Technology
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